Potato Cakes

The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New ... · Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady · 1840
Source
The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory;: In Which will Be Found a Large Collection of Original Receipts. 3rd ed.
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Ingredients (10)
Instructions (7)
  1. Roast or bake mealy potatoes, as they are drier and lighter when done that way than boiled.
  2. Peel them, and beat them in a mortar with a little cream or melted butter.
  3. Add some yolks of eggs, a little sack, sugar, a little beaten mace, and nutmeg.
  4. Work it into a light paste.
  5. Make it into cakes of what shape you please with moulds.
  6. Fry them brown in the best fresh butter.
  7. Serve them with sack and sugar.
Original Text
Potato Cakes. Roast or bake mealy potatoes, as they are drier and lighter when done that way than boiled; peel them, and beat them in a mortar with a little cream or melted butter; add some yolks of eggs, a little sack, sugar, a little beaten mace, and nutmeg: work it into a light paste, then make it into cakes of what shape you please with moulds. Fry them brown in the best fresh butter; serve them with sack and sugar.
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