Water Creamed Potatoes
Ingredients
Directions
Thicken boiling water slightly with flour, add salt, onion or celery if desired, and sliced potatoes. Simmer 15-20 m.
Or, put a little oil or butter into the saucepan, add flour, then boiling water and potatoes.
By Evora Bucknum Perkins.
Recipe from a historical cookbook (Project Gutenberg).
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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