Mashed Potatoes - American Recipe

Mashed Potatoes

🌍 American, American Home Cooking Difficulty: ●○○○○

🍳 Equipment: Vegetable-knife, Saucepan, Colander, Potato-masher or ricer

Simple mashed potatoes as prepared in the American home kitchen of the 1920s.

Ingredients

• 3 medium-sized potatoes
• 2 tablespoons butter
• ½ cup warm milk
• 1 teaspoon salt
• Pepper

Method

1. Peel — and boil the potatoes in accordance with directions on page 66.
2. Drain — through a colander, put them back in the saucepan, add the materials mentioned above, and mash with a potato masher. Or, put through a ricer before adding the other materials.
3. Place — in the oven to reheat, if necessary.

Tags: potato, pepper, milk, butter · Source: The Plain Sailing Cook Book (1922)