Potatoes Baked in Milk

Ingredients

• A third of a peck of potatoes
• a teaspoon salt
• butter, 1 cent
• two quarts milk

Method

1. 1

   Pare and cut potatoes into thick slices raw into a tin baking pan.

2. 2

   Add part of a green onion, salt, butter, and milk.

3. 3

   Bake slowly until the milk is dried down like cream and brown on top.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cooking for profit (1886) by Jessup Whitehead, page 138. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Potatoes baked in milk Baking powder biscuits, 40 large Butter, 15; bread, 3; cream, 10; milk, 6; coffee and tea, 4 38 $1 38 20 10 21 13 72 Fifteen persons ; 9 cents a plate. 513— Minced Ham on Toast. It is best when freshly made. ^ The ham should be sliced and then minced and served up as soon as it is hot, before it turns to a dark color. Took the last kan trimmings of the boiled ham that would not make slices, ilb, 18 cents, minced fine. Put in saucepan, butter, I cent, and large spoonful water, put in the ham and let get hot but not fry. Season with black pepper only. Made 12 thin slices of toast of one-half loaf bread, 2^ cents. Spread a spoonful of minced ham evenly on the toast as called for. 514— Potatoes Baked in Milk. A third of a peck of potatoes, 4 cents, pared and cut m thick slices raw into a tin baking pan. Added part of a green onion, a teaspoon salt, butter, i cent, and two quarts milk

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