TODAY’S RECIPE
POTATOES IN HALF SHELL (Variation of Baked Potatoes)
Choose medium-sized ‘potatoes with an unbroken skin. Wash thoroughly, dry and bake in a hot oven (450 degrees F.) for 45 to 50 minutes, or till pliable when pressed with the fingers. Remove frdm oven. Cut off top slice. Scoop out interior. Mash, and to each cup of potato add one teaspoonful butter, salt and pepper to taste and sufficient hot milk to make the correct con-szst-CTicy f Replace in shell and brown off peaks in hot oven. Garnish with parsley and paprika and serve.
Variations: — , . (1) Add finely-chopped parsley to mashed potato. (2) Add one-third cup grated cheese to one cup mashed potato. (3) Add one-third cup minced ham, meat, and so on, to one cup mashed potato. _ . , (4) Add finely-chopped, cooked onions to flavour. . N.B.—One eighth to a quarter meh of pulp should be left adhering to the skin, this providing a firm shell. If too much hot milk is added the interior of the potato when placed in the oven will puff up, and will fall again when removed from the oven. Also the peaks will not brown so easily. SARAH. .
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Southland Times, Issue 23782, 1 April 1939, Page 9
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194TODAY’S RECIPE Southland Times, Issue 23782, 1 April 1939, Page 9
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