Potatoes a la Macon

Ingredients

• cold boiled potatoes
• some butter
• some cream
• salt
• pepper

Method

1. 1

   Cut cold boiled potatoes into thin slices.

2. 2

   Heat butter and cream, add potatoes, season with salt, and cook until absorbed.

3. 3

   Serve with broiled steak.

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.

Potatoes a la Macon. — Take cold boiled potatoes and cut up into very thin slices. Put some butter and cream into a saucepan, and when hot add the potatoes. Salt delicately, and let cook till the potatoes have absorbed the cream and butter, stirring very carefully so as to prevent breaking the slices and burning them. Put into a hot dish, dust with pepper

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