Whipped Potatoes

Ingredients

Good mealy potatoes, a little melted butter, milk, pepper, and salt.

Method

Boil the potatoes till tender, and instead of mashing them in the ordinary way, whip up with a fork on a hot dish till light and dry; then whip in the melted butter, warm milk, pepper, and salt; continue whipping quickly till it becomes a creamy mass - almost like a méringue - then pile as lightly and irregularly as possible on a hot dish.

Potato Puff

Ingredients

2 breakfast-cups of cold mashed potatoes, 2 tablespoonfuls of melted butter, 2 eggs, 1 teacup of milk, salt to taste.

Method

Stir the butter into the potatoes, and beat till of a white cream, then add the eggs, whipped very light, the milk and salt; beat all well, pour into a deep dish, and bake in a quick oven till brown.

Potato Cakes

Ingredients

Potatoes, flour, a little milk, lard or dripping.

Method

Make cold mashed potatoes into flat cakes (with a little milk if dry); flour and fry in lard or good sweet dripping, until they are a light brown.

Potato Scallops

Ingredients

Potatoes, melted butter, salt and pepper.

Method

Boil and mash the potatoes soft with a little milk. Beat up light with melted butter - a dessert-spoonful for every 1/2 pint of potatoes - salt and pepper to taste. Fill some patty-tins or buttered scallop-shells with the mixture, and brown in an oven when you have stamped a pattern on the top of each. 'Glaze while hot with a little butter and serve in the shells. If liked, strew some grated cheese over the top.

Potato Chips

Ingredients

Potatoes, salted lard.

Method

Peel and slice some good potatoes, and lay them in cold water for an hour. Dry by laying them upon a dry towel and pressing them with another. Fry in salted lard, quickly, to a delicate brown. Take out as soon as they are done; shake briskly in a hot colander, to free them from fat, and serve at once in a hot dish, lined with a napkin.

Potato Balls

Ingredients

Potatoes, milk, butter, pepper and salt.

Method

Boil the potatoes till tender, strain and mash them with a very little milk, pepper, salt, and a bit of butter; make them into round balls with the hand, place them on a dish, and set in the oven to brown.