Stuffed Potatoes

Select six large white potatoes, wash and bake them until soft. Cut off the end of each one, and with the handle of a fork or spoon scrape out the contents. Mash them with a fork and add to them three tablespoonfuls of hot milk, a tablespoon-ful of butter, and salt to taste. Return the mixture to the skins and set them in the oven for five or ten minutes until they are hot through.

Stewed Potatoes

Peel six large white potatoes and cut them into neat dice with a sharp knife. Lay them in cold water for twenty minutes and then put them over the fire in boiling water. Cook until tender, drain off the water and sprinkle the potatoes with a tablespoon-ful of flour. Have ready a cupful of milk in which a good tea-spoonful of butter has been melted; pour this over the potatoes and let them come slowly to a boil. Salt to taste, and serve.

Potato Puff

Two cupfuls of mashed potato; one egg; half a cupful of milk ; two teaspoonfuls of butter; salt to taste.

Beat the egg light, add it with the butter, the milk, and the salt to the potato, whip all together and bake in a buttered pudding-dish.

Scalloped Potato

To two cupfuls of mashed potato add one egg, a tablespoonful of butter, and a cupful of milk. Salt to taste, turn the potato into a buttered pudding-dish, sprinkle with fine crumbs, dot with bits of butter, and bake, covered, until the potato is hot through; uncover and brown.

Potatoes Stewed Whole

Small potatoes may be selected for this. Peel and boil them. When they are almost done drain off the water and pour over them enough milk to cover them. Let them cook in this until done and stir in a tablespoonful of butter, cut up in a table-spoonful of flour. Simmer a few moments, season, and serve.

Sweet Potatoes, Scalloped

Boil sweet potatoes and slice them crosswise after peeling. Arrange the slices in a buttered pudding-dish, sprinkling each layer with a few crumbs, with bits of butter, and a very little salt. Make the top layer a thick one of crumbs and dot plentifully with butter. Cook, covered, twenty minutes, uncover and brown.

Sweet Potato Puff

Two cupfuls of sweet potato, mashed; two eggs; one cupful of milk ; two tablespoonfuls of butter ; salt.

Mix and bake like the white potato puff described above.

Buttered Sweet Potatoes

Boil and peel sweet potatoes and slice them lengthwise. Butter each piece and lay all in a pan, buttered side up. Set this in the oven for a few minutes before serving.