Potato Croquettes

Ingredients

• two pounds of potatoes
• one ounce of butter
• a tablespoonful of milk
• two eggs
• about a teaspoonful of parsley
• one pound of lard
• pepper
• salt
• some crumbs of bread

Method

1. 1

   Wash and boil the potatoes.

2. 2

   Rub them through a wire sieve onto a plate.

3. 3

   Heat butter and milk in a stewpan, then stir in the sifted potato.

4. 4

   Add the egg yolks one at a time, parsley, pepper, and salt.

5. 5

   Let the mixture cool, then form into croquettes.

6. 6

   Dip in beaten egg and roll in bread crumbs.

7. 7

   Fry in hot lard until pale yellow, then drain on paper and serve with fried parsley.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The English-Chinese cookery book (1890) by J. Dyer Ball, J. Dyer Ball, J. Dyer (James Dyer) 1890- Ball, page 26. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

POTATO CROQUETTES. TAKE two pounds of potatoes, wash, and boil, or steam them. Any remains of cold potatoes can be used in this way, instead of boiling fresh ones. Take the potatoes, oiic at a time, and rub them through a — 62 — POTATO CROQUETTES— continued. wire sieve with a wooden spoon as quickly as possible on to a plate. The potatoes can be passed through the sieve much quicker while they are hot. Put one ounce of butter, and a tablespoonful of milk into a stewpan, and put it on the fire. When the milk and butter are hot, stir in smoothly the sifted potato. Take the stewpan off the fire, and stand it aside. Break two eggs, put the whites in a cup (as they are not required for present use), and stir the yokes, one at a time into the potato in the stewpan. Take two or three sprigs of parsley, wash them in cold water, dry them in a cloth, and chop them up finely on a board (there should be about a teaspoonful). Sprinkle the parsley into the stewpan, and season the potato with pepper and salt. Turn the potato mixture on to a plate, and stand it aside till cold. Put one pound of lard into a deep stewpan, and put it on the fire to heat. ■ Be careful it does not burn. Take some crumbs of bread

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