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Potato Cakes

A simple dish of mashed potato cakes coated in nut meal and browned.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Potato Cakes

Oven, in the book's wordsA quick oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Take cold mashed potatoes left over from the previous day.

  2. Form into small cakes with your hands.

  3. Roll the cakes in nut meal.

Cook

  1. Brown the cakes on a soapstone or skillet.

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

Cold mashed potatoes
Form the base of the cakes and hold their shape when shaped by hand.
Nut meal
Coats the outside of the cakes, adding a crisp, browned surface when cooked.

“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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