Slice the potatoes crosswise and arrange in layers in a bake-dish, sprinkling each layer with salt, pepper, bits of butter, and a very little sugar. When the dish is full pour in three or four tablespoonfuls of hot water in which has been melted a teaspoon-ful of butter. Strew the top thickly with salted and peppered cracker-crumbs, stick bits of butter here and there, and bake, covered, until thoroughly heated. Uncover, and brown lightly.

An excellent preparation of an excellent esculent.