This section is from the book "Cooking For Profit", by Jessup Whitehead. Also available from Amazon: Cooking for Profit.
This makes 25, small size for garnishing: 12 ounces potato - 2 cups mashed. 1/2 cup flour - 2 ounces
2 tablespoons cream. Same of white wine or sherry
Salt, nutmeg and cayenne.
Take the potatoes from the dinner steamer and mash the required amount through a colander and while still warm mix in the other ingredients except the flour. 1 he mixture should be in a deep pan or saucepan and set in cold water.
While it is cooling whip it light with an egg whisk, then stir in the flour.
Drop small spoonfuls egg-shaped in hot lard, fry light colored, dram on paper, serve one in each plate of fish and with any dish that is a la Dauphinoise.
 
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