Plasmon Mashed Potatoes

Ingredients

• 1 lb. potatoes
• 1 oz. butter
• 3 tablespoonfuls Plasmon stock
• pepper
• salt

Method

1. 1

   Steam or boil the potatoes.

2. 2

   When done, strain well to get off all the moisture, mash them, add the butter, salt, pepper, and Plasmon; beat well with a fork, pass through a sieve (if desired); dish, and brown in the oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Plasmon cookery book (1904) by International Plasmon Limited, page 12. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

PLASMON MASHED POTATOES. — Ingredients : 1 lb. potatoes ; 1 oz. hitter ; 3 tablespoonfuls Plasmon stock; pepper and salt to taste. Method. — Steam or boil the potatoes. When done, strain well to get off all the moisture, mash them, add the butter, salt, pepper, and Plasmon ; beat well with a fork, pass through a sieve (if desired) ; dish, and brown in the oven. Another Way. — Whip up the Plasmon stock to a thick cream, and then add it to the potatoes, and mix as above. 37. GREEN CORN FRITTERS. — Ingredients : 1 tin green corn ; 2 eggs; 3 tablespoonfuls flour ; 1 tablespoonful Plasmon. Method. — Put the flour and Plasmon into a basin and mix well together, beat the eggs, add them and the green corn to the flour and Plasmon and mix well; shape into fritters; fry in boiling oil to a light brown colour ; serve very hot. Note. — Salt and pepper may be added to taste. But these fritters may be served as a sweet ; in that case only use a pinch of salt, and serve the fritters with castor sugar. 29 38. SAVOURY VEGETABLES. — Ingredients : | lb. cooked spinach ; i pint Plasmon sauce ; a little cheese ; 6 eggs. Method. — Take | lb. of spinach, cooked, and pass through the sieve ; cover with Plasmon sauce mixed with cheese. Serve in little cases with a poached egg on top. 39. STUFFED TOMATOES. — Ingredients : 4 or 6 tomatoes ; 2 oz. grated cheese ; 2 teaspoonfuls Plasmon ; 5 tea- spoonful salt ; little pepper ; 1 egg. Method. — Cut the centres out of the tomatoes ; mix all the ingredients together, fill in the tomatoes with the mixture, piling high. Bake in a moderate oven for 10 minutes. 40. POTATO CROQUETTES. — Ingredients : 8 or 10 potatoes ( not new ) ; 2 eggs ; 1 heaped tablespoonfcl Plasmon ; 2 oz. butter; 1 teaspooiful flour ; 1 saltspoonful salt; some fine cracker crumbs. Method. — Boil the potatoes in their skins, peel and grate them, or pass them through a Victoria nut mill ; beat the butter to a cream, add the eggs, flour, salt, and Plasmon gradually, beating the mixture all the time. Form into croquettes about three inches long, brush with egg, and boil in fat at a temperature of 380 degrees. 41. LETTUCE WITH PLASMON.— Ingredients : 3 lettuces ; 1 teaspoonful Plasmon ; 1 oz. butter

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