New Potatoes à la Cream

Ingredients

• Wash new potatoes
• half pint for a pint of potatoes
• a piece of butter the size of a small egg
• salt
• an even tablespoon of flour

Method

1. 1

   Put them in boiling water with a little salt; as soon as tender, cut into four pieces.

2. 2

   Mix milk or cream, butter, and salt.

3. 3

   Stir flour into cold milk, boil enough to cook the flour, and pour over the potatoes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Queen Cook Book: A Careful Compilation of Recipes and Practical ... (1895) by William Hart Boyd, page 45. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

New Potatoes 4 la Cream Wash new potatoes and scrape off the skin; put them in boiling water, a little salt; as soon as tender take up and cut into four pieces. While these are boiling put some new milk or cream, say half pint for a pint of potatoes, a piece of butter the size of a small egg and salt. Mix an even tablespoon of flour

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.