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Quirled Potatoes

A dish of boiled potatoes mashed, seasoned with salt, and browned in an oven.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Quirled Potatoes

Ingredients

Directions

The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.

Prepare

  1. Peel and boil the potatoes until tender.

  2. Season with salt and mash the potatoes.

  3. Pass the mashed potatoes through a colander into a serving dish.

Bake and serve

  1. Brown the mashed potatoes in a 400°F (200°C) oven.

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.

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What each ingredient does

Potatoes
Provide the starchy base that becomes soft, fluffy and creamy when mashed.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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