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Potato Balls

From The housewife's referee, 1898

Serves 4

Presented as published in 1898. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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Ingredients

Method

As published

This recipe was extracted from The housewife's referee (1898) by Harriet Anne de Salis, University of Leeds Library, page 121. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Potato Balls.- — Mash some floury potatoes quite smooth, season with pepper and salt, add fresh butter until sufiiciently moist, but not too much so, make into balls, roll them in vermicelli crumbled, or in breadcrumbs — in the latter case they may be brushed with the yolk of egg

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