Mashed Potatoes

Ingredients

• Pare and plain boil, mash in the same vessel in which they are cooked
• season with hot milk
• butter
• salt

Method

1. 1

   Pare and boil the potatoes, mash in the same vessel, season with hot milk, butter, and salt to taste; beat with a fork, and arrange neatly in a hot dish, or glaze over with butter and brown in the oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The cooking garden (1885) by Emily Huntington, page 9. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Mashed potatoes will be hard and sticky and heavy if you turn cold milk upon them while they are steaming hot, but by adding scalding milk, and beating them thoroughly, they will be light and feathery. Until served, they should be covered close with a napkin. Fried potatoes will be soaked and leathery if the fat is not hot enough, and if they are not well drained when taken out. Later on in the lesson, one of the teachers will ask you a few questions about what I have told you, but now we will go at once to work, remembering all we taught in the last lesson. QUESTIONS. Qztestion. Which is the most coTnmon vegetable used f Answer, Potato. Q. Of what is it mostly formed ? A. Of starch. Q. What is the simplest way of cooking it ? A. Boiling. Q. How long does it take f A. Thirty minutes from the beginning of boiling. Q. What part is thrown away ? A. The skin. Q. What effect does soaking in water have upon them ? A. It swells them, and also freshens them. Q. How can boiled potatoes wait without harm? A. Covered with a thin towel. Q. How should they be served whole ? A. Laid in a dish on a napkin, and covered with the fringed corners. Q. How do you know when an oven is hot? A. When the oven door hisses, or flour will brown in five minutes. Q. How do you know when water boils in a kettle f A. When the steam puffs out of the spout. Q. How do yoti know when water boils in a saucepan f A. When it bubbles all over. Q. How do you know when fat is hot enough to boil in ? A. When the smoke rises from the centre. Q. Which is hottest when it boils, water or fat? A. Fat. Q. What must you remember in stewing with milk ? A. That it burns easily. Q. How long mzist potatoes bake f A. About 45 minutes — a medium-sized potato in an ordinary oven. 40 LESSON SECOND. Q. How long will it take to fry potatoes ? A. Ten minutes, watching all the time. Q. How long does it take to stew potatoes ? A. About 30 minutes for uncooked potatoes. Q. When do you salt boiled potatoes ? A. When you start to boil them. Q. How much salt ? A. About half a table-spoonful to a quart of water. RECEIPTS. MASHED POTATOES. Pare and plain boil, mash in the same vessel in which they are cooked, and season with hot milk, butter

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