Name: Mashed Potatoes
Ingredients: salt

Mashed Potatoes

Ingredients

salt

Directions

Pare and boil the potatoes ; when done, drain off the water ; let them stand a minute in the stove to let all the steam escape; add the salt and butter, and mash them free from lumps ; add sweet cream, or milk ; beat like cake batter, the longer the better, until nice and light ; serve in a covered dish.

By Fayette (Mo.). Baptist Church, Ladies of the. Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures. See the original page.