Hashed Brown Potatoes - American Recipe

Hashed Brown Potatoes

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

🍳 Equipment: Vegetable-knife, Frying-pan, Pancake-turner

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

Ingredients

• 3 or 4 potatoes
• 1 tablespoon butter
• ½ cup cream
• 1 teaspoon salt
• Pepper

Method

1. Prepare — and boil the potatoes in accordance with directions on page 66, drain off the water, and let the potatoes cool.
2. Cut — or chop the potatoes into small bits, and add the salt and pepper.
3. Melt — the butter in a frying-pan, and put the potato in this.
4. Pour — the cream over the potato, cover the pan, and cook slowly for fifteen minutes.
5. Remove — the cover of the pan, press the potato firmly into the pan, and let it brown on the under side.
6. Lift — the potato with the pancake-turner, folding one half over the other, and put it onto a hot serving-dish.

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

Notes

A small quantity of finely chopped green pepper or pimento may be mixed with the potato, if desired.