Mashed Potatoes

Ingredients

• eight medium-sized potatoes
• one-third cup butter
• one and one-half teaspoons salt
• one-half cup hot milk

Method

1. 1

   Pare and soak potatoes in cold water for one hour.

2. 2

   Cook in boiling salted water until soft, then drain and mash.

3. 3

   Add butter, salt, pepper, and hot milk.

4. 4

   Beat until creamy and reheat before serving.

As published

This recipe was extracted from What to Have for Dinner (1905) by Fannie Merritt Farmer, page 11. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

MASHED POTATOES. Pare eight medium-sized potatoes and soak in cold water one hour. Cook in boiling salted water, until soft, then drain. Mash thoroughly, using a potato masher in same stew pan in which they were cooked. Add one-third cup butter, one and one-half teaspoons salt, few grains pepper, and one-half cup hot milk

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