Potatoes, Mashed and Browned
From Cassell's dictionary of cookery, 1892
Serves 2
Sufficient for two persons.
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This recipe was extracted from Cassell's dictionary of cookery (1892) by Cassell & Company, page 1338. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
Potatoes Mashed and Browned. — BoU a pound of mealy potatoes in their skins. When done enough, peel them, throw them into a bowl, and beat them lightly with an ounce of butter, two table-sjjoonfuls of cream or milk, a little pepper and salt, and the yolk of an egg. Butter a pie-dish, turn the mashed potatoes into it, brush over with the white of an cgg„ ornament cin the top, and brown in a quick oven. Serve the potatoes in the dish. Time, about a quarter of an hour to boil the potatoes, ten minutes to brown them. Probable cost, 5d. Sufficient fc^r two persons. Potatoes, Mashed, Cod with {see Cod with Mashed Potatoes). Potatoes, Mashed, with Onions.— Boil and dry the potatoes, and mash them ac- cording to the directions given above, and whilst mashing mix with them two or three onions which have been boiled till soft and finely minced. The quantity of onion used will of course be regulated by taste. Some cooks, when t}ae flavour is very much lilted, chop up a raw onion, and mix it with the potatoes. Time, from half an hour to an hour to boil POT ( 63.3 ) POT the potatoes. Probable cost, Id. or Ijd. per pound. Sufficient, two pounds of potatoes for four or five persons. Potatoes, Mock New, in Cream. — Wash and peel a number of old jiotatoes of a small size, and cut them down to the size of new potatoes. Boil them in salt-and-water for eight or ten minutes, then pour off the liquid, cover with a cloth, and let them steam by the side of the fire for ten minutes. Almost cover them with cream, sprinkle a little salt
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