POTATO DISHES

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 243, 13 October 1936, Page 13

POTATO DISHES

SIMPLE AND CHEAP. . Potatoes With Tomato Sauce.—Chop up an onion and fry it until it is brown in three tablespoonfuls butter in a casserole. Then add a tablespoonful flour and cook for a few minutes longer. Stii in a gill of tomato sauce or puree, and add gradually two tablespoonfuls milk. Stir the whole thing together till it is smooth, then add 21b potatoes cut in slices. After seasoning with salt and pepper, put 011 the lid and cook in the oven for an hour and a half. Stuffed Potatoes. —Bake the required number of potatoes in their jackets. When quite done cut off a slice of the top and scoop out the inside. Mash this with a little minced ham or some grated cheese, or any cold cooked lisli you have left, a little butter, milk, seasoning, chopped parsley and a dash of flavouring, such as chutney or anchovy. Lastly, add a squeeze of lemon juice. Mash all this until the mixture is very light, replace in potato shell, making the top neat, and return to the oven and brown slightly. I Potato Croquettes. —Boil some pota- ] toes and mash with a little butter until j perfectly smooth. Add a small quantity | of chopped parsley, seasoning and a , tablespoonful of fresh breadcrumbs. Mix with beaten yolk of egg until stiff. I Shape into small balls of even size, dip in yolk of egg, and well cover all over with dried breadcrumbs. Fry in boiling fat until golden brown. Cottage Loaf Potatoes. —Four large potatoes, two eggs, salt and pepper to taste. Peel, cook and mash potatoes. Add one of the eggs, well beaten, salt and pepper. Shape into balls of two sizes, large ones the size of an egg, and the others half as large. Now flatten each large one a little, and place a smaller one 011 top. Make a dent in the small one so that it looks like a cottage loaf. Put loaves on a greased flat pan and brush with remaining egg, which has been beaten slightly with one • tablespoonful of water. Bake in a hot oven until brown, about 20 minutes. This makes six loaves.