Surprise Potatoes
From How to cook vegetables, 1911
Optional: add a teaspoonful of game or other puree in the center.
Presented as published in 1911. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.
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This recipe was extracted from How to cook vegetables (1911) by Charles Herman Senn, page 75. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.
Surprise Potatoes. Select 8 medium-sized potatoes, wash and drain them. Bake them in their jackets in a quick oven. Cut off a piece of each lengthwise to form the cover, and scoop out the soft part of the inside. Rub about three parts of this through a fine sieve, and mix with a pat of butter and some double cream ; season with salt, pepper, and nutmeg
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