Potatoes Stewed in Cream

Ingredients

• Take cold cooked potatoes
• pour in good milk to come up even with the sliced potatoes
• add salt
• add butter
• and cream, according as can be afforded.

Method

1. 1

   Slice cold cooked potatoes thinly into a stew pan, add milk to cover, heat while chopping potatoes small.

2. 2

   Add salt, butter, and cream as desired.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Cooking for profit (1886) by Jessup Whitehead, page 151. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Potatoes, stewed in cream (7 cents.) Biscuits (2 doz., 15 cents.) Batter cakes (cheapest; 3 pints batter, 8 cents.) Syrup ([2 cents.) Butter (i pound for table and steak, 25 cents.) Milk, cream, coffee, tea, 22 cents. $1 48; 19 persons, nearly 8 cents a plate. [-34— Potatoes Stewed i.n Cream, Variously called stewed potatoes, minced potatoes in cream, and other ways, and a favorite way with many people. Take cold cooked potatoes, slice them as thin as possible into a stew pan, pour in good milk to come up even with the sliced potatoes and set over the fire. While it is heating, chop the po- tatoes small with a knife point, add salt, butter and cream, according as can be afforded.

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