Potatoes au Gratin

Ingredients

• some cold boiled potatoes
• about a gill of white sauce
• x oz. of grated cheese
• breadcrumbs
• oiled butter

Method

1. 1

   Cut cold boiled potatoes into dice.

2. 2

   To each pound, add white sauce, season with salt, pepper, and nutmeg, and mix.

3. 3

   Put into a buttered gratin dish, sprinkle with breadcrumbs and oiled butter, and bake in a sharp oven for about 20 minutes.

As published

This recipe was extracted from How to cook vegetables (1911) by Charles Herman Senn, page 78. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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