Pommes de terre a la Maitre d’Hotel

Ingredients

• Melt a slice of butter
• a tablespoonful of flour
• about 3 tablespoonfuls of boiling water
• as much cream as will bring it to the thickness of good melted butter
• a little salt
• about a teaspoonful of chopped boiled parsley
• cold boiled potatoes sliced about Jin. thick
• a teaspoonful of lemon juice or vinegar

Method

1. 1

   Melt butter, stir in flour, gradually mix in boiling water and cream to desired thickness.

2. 2

   Add salt and parsley.

3. 3

   Stir in sliced cold boiled potatoes, heat, and add lemon juice or vinegar before serving.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The King's College Hospital book of cooking recipes (1907) by King's College Hospital, page 31. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Pommes de terre a la Maitre d’Hotel. Melt a slice of butter in a saucepan, stir in a table- spoonful of flour, then gradually mix in about 3 tablespoonfuls of boiling water, and as much cream as will bring it to the thickness of good melted butter. Add a little salt and about a teaspoonful of chopped boiled parsley. Be careful to stir all the time it thickens. Put in cold boiled potatoes sliced about Jin. thick. When quite hot add a teaspoonful of lemon juice or vinegar

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