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Mashed Potatoes

From Culinary jottings, 1885

Do not waste an egg for glazing.

Presented as published in 1885. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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As published

This recipe was extracted from Culinary jottings (1885) by A. R. Kenney-Herbert, page 250. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

MasLed potatoes. -n i smooth, add a little milk, as much butter as you can spare, and a little salt : form with the wooden spoon, and brown the outside in the oven. Do not let your cook waste an egg in endeavouring to glaze the outside of the mould ! A well boiled sweet onion may be mashed with the potatoes

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