Potato Croquettes

Ingredients

• ^ lb. cooked potatoes.
• i oz. butter.
• 1 yolk.
• 1 good teaspoonful parsley.
• 1 oz. Parmesan cheese.
• Cayenne.
• salt.

Method

1. 1

   Rub the potatoes through a wire sieve.

2. 2

   Melt the butter in a pan; add all the other ingredients, and cook over the fire till the mixture will roll smoothly into balls.

3. 3

   Cool slightly, form into balls, rolls, or fancy shapes; coat with beaten egg and bread-crumbs, and fry in smoking hot fat.

4. 4

   Drain well; dish and garnish with parsley.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Recipes for high-class cookery (1912) by Edinburgh School of Cookery, page 18. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Cayenne and salt. A little cream. Soak the beans over night in plenty of cold water ; rinse and put them in a pan with cold water and salt. Boil gently from two to three hours till tender. Drain, and remove the skins. Melt the butter in a pan ; add all the other ingredients, and shake over the fire till the beans are well coated with the mixture, without allowing it to boil. Dish and garnish with fried bread. [ 86 ] PEAS, 1 Ib. peas. Boiling water. Sugar, Sprig of mint, i oz. butter. Salt. Rinse the peas and shell them. Have a pan with just enough boiling salted water to cover them. Add the peas with the mint and a pinch of sugar ; boil gently till soft, from ten to twenty minutes. Drain thoroughly, toss in the melted butter, and serve. Scrub and peel the potatoes and cut into very thin slices. Keep for half an hour in cold water. Drain very well on a dry cloth. Have the fat smoking hot. Put the chips into a frying-basket and cook until tender, about three minutes. Lift up the basket and let the fat reheat. Put the potatoes into the fat again for a few seconds, until they are crisp and brown. Drain thoroughly on paper, and serve. POTATO CHIPS. Two or three potatoes. Pan of fat. [ 87 ] POTATO CROQUETTES. ^ lb. cooked potatoes, i oz. butter. 1 yolk. 1 good teaspoonful parsley. 1 oz. Parmesan cheese. Cayenne and salt.

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