Parisian Potatoes

Ingredients

• there should be three cups
• Melt one-fourth cup butter
• sprinkle with salt

Method

1. 1

   Wash and pare potatoes, shape into balls, plunge into cold water, let stand, and drain.

2. 2

   Melt butter in a small dripping pan, add potatoes, sprinkle with salt, and cook in the oven until soft, about twenty minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from What to Have for Dinner (1905) by Fannie Merritt Farmer, page 53. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

PARISIAN POTATOES. Wash and pare large potatoes and shape into balls, using a French vegetable cutter; there should be three cups. Plunge into cold water, let stand ten minutes - and drain. Melt one-fourth cup butter in a small drip- ping pan, add potatoes and sprinkle with salt

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