Potatoe Cakes

The Art Of Cookery · Hannah Glasse · 1747

Source: The Art Of Cookery
Status: success · extracted 12 days ago
Not a recipe: No

Ingredients (11)

potatoes ↝ Potatoes, raw, skin [Vegetables and Vegetable Products]
the yolks of eggs ↝ Egg, yolk only, raw [Eggs and omelets]
a little ſack
ſugar ↝ Sugar, NFS [Sugars and honey]
a little beaten mace ↝ Spices, mace, ground [Spices and Herbs]
a little nutmeg ↝ Oil, nutmeg butter [Fats and Oils]
a little cream or melted butter ↝ Cream, whipped [Cream cheese, sour cream, whipped cream]
freſh butter ↝ Asparagus, fresh, cooked with butter or margarine [Other vegetables and combinations]
butter with ſack and ſugar ↝ Butter, stick, unsalted [Dairy and Egg Products]
ſack
ſugar ↝ Sugar, NFS [Sugars and honey]

Instructions (7)

Boil potatoes, peel them, and beat them in a mortar.
Mix them with the yolks of eggs, a little sack, sugar, a little beaten mace, a little nutmeg, a little cream or melted butter.
Work it up into a paste.
Then make it into cakes, or just what shapes you please with moulds.
Fry them brown in fresh butter.
Lay them in plates or dishes.
Melt butter with sack and sugar, and pour over them.

Original Text

To make Potatoe Cakes.
TAKE potatoes, boil them, peel them, beat them in a mortar, mix them with the yolks of eggs, a little ſack, ſugar, a little beaten mace, a little nutmeg, a little cream or melted butter, work it up into a paſte; then make it into cakes, or juſt what ſhapes you pleaſe with moulds, fry them brown in freſh butter, lay them in plates or diſhes, melt butter with ſack and ſugar, and pour over them.

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