MASHED POTATOES

Ingredients

• Potatoes mashed, 2 lbs.
• salt, 1 teaspoonful
• butter, 1 to 2 oz.
• milk or cream, I pint

Method

1. 1

   Boil potatoes until tender, drain, steam dry, peel, press through a cullender, mix with melted butter and milk or cream, stir over gentle heat until hot, and serve.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 4 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Modern cookery, in all its branches (1884) by Eliza Acton, page 287. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

MASHED POTATOES. Boil them perfectly tender quite through, pour off the water, and steam them very dry by the directions already given in the receipt of * Vegetables and fruit are now so generally forced and brought so early into our markets, that there is little need of these expedients at present. 314 MODERN COOKERY. .[chap. xyii. page 310, peel them quickly, take out every speck, and while they are still hot, press the potatoes through an earthen cullender, or bruise them to a smooth mash with a strong wooden fork or spoon, hut never pound them in a mortar, as that will reduce them to a close heavy paste. Let them he entirely free from lumps , for nothing can be more indicative of carelessness or want of skill on the part of the cook, than mashed potatoes sent to table full of these. Melt in a clean saucepan a slice of good butter with a few spoonsful of milk, or, better still, of cream ; put in the potatoes after having sprinkled some fine salt upon them, and stir the whole over a gentle fire with a wooden spoon, until the ingredients are well-mixed, and the whole is very hot. It may then be served directly ; or heaped high in a dish, left rough on the surface, and browned before the fire ; or it may be pressed into a well buttered mould of handsome form, which has been strewed with the finest bread crumbs, and shaken free from the loose ones, then turned out, and browned in a Dutch or common oven. More or less liquid will be required to moisten sufficiently potatoes of various kinds. Potatoes mashed, 2 lbs. ; salt, 1 teaspoonful ; butter, 1 to 2 oz. ; milk or cream, I pint

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