Diced potatoes 240 g Distilled water 1000 ml Boil until cooked soft. Decant the clear liquid and add water to 1 litre. Decanted liquid 1000 ml Malt extract 5 g Agar 15 g Heat for 30 min. and then autoclave at 121 °C for 20 min. Put stripes or squares of sterile white blotting paper on the surface of the sterilized media in Petri plates. In test tubes the stripes are added prior to autoclaving.