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Potato Cakes

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Potato Cakes

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Make cold mashed potatoes into fiat cakes, flour them,

  2. and fry in jiart lard and part butter, until they are a

  3. light brown.

  4. TO BOIIi 5fEW POTATOES.

  5. Scrape the skins from new j)otatoes, and lay them in cold water for a while, put them into a saucepan, and cover them with water ; cover them, and boil for about half an hour ; try one, and if done, drain the water off; make a sauce of hot milk, thickened with flour, and seasoned with butter, salt and pepper ; pour over the potatoes, and serve hot.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

6Calories
0 gProtein
0 gFat
2 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 2 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Salt1 tsp (6g)0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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.

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