This section is from the book "Cooking For Profit", by Jessup Whitehead. Also available from Amazon: Cooking for Profit.
Take 4 or 5 potatoes out of the dinner steamer and mash them with salt, the yolk of an egg, or two, and pinch of ground mace "or nutmeg and if quite dry add a little butter. Roll on the flour board, cut off balls larger than walnuts, roll round, bread them in egg and cracker meal and fry to a handsome light brown same as dauphine. They can be made in other shapes but the round is the quickest.
 
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