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Mashed Potatoes

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Mashed Potatoes

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil the peeled potatoes until tender.

  2. Drain any remaining water from the pot.

  3. Return the potatoes to the pot and place it on the stove.

  4. Mash the potatoes rapidly until smooth and creamy.

  5. Stir with a spoon, mash again, and repeat until even.

  6. Add a little coarse sea salt to taste.

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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