Required: One pound of mashed potatoes.

One ounce of butter.

The yolks of two eggs.

One ounce of grated cheese.

A few grains of nutmeg.

Salt and pepper.

Melt the butter gently in a saucepan, put in one of the beaten yolks and cheese, and mix all well together. Season the mixture with salt, pepper, and a few grains of nutmeg. Shape the mixture in pieces a quarter of an inch thick, three inches long, and one and a half wide. Mark the top of each in a lattice pattern with the back of a knife, then brush them over with the remaining yolk. Put the shapes of potato on a greased baking-tin, and bake them a delicate brown in a hot oven.

If preferred, the mixture may be stamped out in rounds the size of the top of a claret glass.