Cleo Potatoes

Ingredients

• Cut raw potatoes
• parboil in salt water
• sprinkle with melted butter

Method

1. 1

   Cut potatoes into pear shapes, parboil, then roast in a buttered pan, basting until brown.

2. 2

   Serve salted and garnished with parsley.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Hotel St. Francis cook book (1919) by Hirtzler, Victor., page 285. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Cleo potatoes String bean salad Lemon pie Coffee DINNER Potage Duchesse Fillet of sole, Marguery Roast lamb, mint sauce Succotash Broiled fresh mushrooms on toast Alligator pear salad Peach Tetrazzini Assorted cakes Coffee Petite marmite. Put in a vessel with cold water to cover, five pounds of short ribs of beef and a soup hen. Season with a spoonful of salt, and bring to a boil, and skim carefully so the broth will be clear. Then add two large carrots, three turnips, a piece of cabbage, one stalk of celery and four leeks, all tied in a cheese cloth ; one bouquet garni, and a large marrow bone. When beef and fowl are well done remove, take off the skin and fat and cut the meat in pieces one inch square. Remove the bouquet garni, and cut the cabbage, carrots, turnips, celery and leeks in round pieces one-half inch in diameter. Put the beef, chicken and vegetables in another pot and strain the broth over them. Boil slowly for five minutes. Have your butcher saw some raw marrow bones in wafers as thin as paper, and add them to the soup at the last moment. Serve very hot in soup tureen, with a sprinkle of chopped chervil. Cut some crust of bread or rolls in diamond shape, bake in oven till brown, and serve separate. Special earthern petite marmite pots are carried at the large stores, and are preferable to tureens for serving. Broiled lobster. Cut a live lobster in two lengthwise, season with salt and pepper, sprinkle with olive oil, and broil on hot iron. Serve with maitre d'hotel sauce, garnished with lemons and parsley. Cleo potatoes. Cut raw potatoes in pear shapes the size of an egg, parboil in salt water, then put in a well-buttered pan pointed end up, sprinkle with melted butter

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