Potato Puff

Ingredients:

2 c. mashed potatoes 2 tbsp. melted butter

2 eggs 1 c. cream

1/2 tsp. salt Method:

Beat the potatoes, eggs, and cream until the mixture is smooth and light. Add the melted butter and salt. Pour mixture into a buttered baking dish and bake in a hot oven until it is well risen and brown.

Potato Souffle

Ingredients:

4 large white potatoes 1 tbsp. butter 4 egg whites

1/4 c. milk 1/4 tsp. pepper 4 egg yolks

1 tsp. salt

Method:

Boil and rice the potatoes. Add the milk, butter, salt, pepper, and yolks of eggs. Fold in the stiffly beaten whites of eggs and pour the mixture into a buttered baking dish. Bake in a moderate oven until the surface is browned.

Sweet Potato Puff Ingredients:

6 sweet potatoes 2 tbsp. butter whites 2 eggs 1/2 tsp. salt

Method:

Boil and mash the sweet potatos. Add the butter, salt, and stiffly beaten whites of eggs. Pour the mixture into buttered custard cups placed in boiling water. Bake in a hot oven twenty minutes. Serve in the cups with a parsley garnish.

Glazed Sweet Potato I

Ingredients:

6 medium-sized potatoes 1/2 c. sugar

1/4 c. water 1 tbsp. butter

Method:

Wash and pare sweet potatoes. Cook ten minutes in boiling salted water. Drain, cut in halves lengthwise, and put in a buttered pan. Make a sirup of sugar, water; add butter. Brush potatoes with sirup and bake 15 minutes, basting twice with remaining sirup.

Glazed Sweet Potato II

Ingredients:

6 medium-sized boiled sweet potatoes 1/4 c. butter hot water

1 c. sugar salt

Method:

Melt butter in a frying pan, add sugar and a little salt gradually to allow sugar to melt and form a brown sirup. Add enough hot water to reduce to a thin sirup. Cut potatoes in lengthwise slices, place in pan and heat over fire, basting constantly until they show a rich golden glaze. Serve at once.

Browned Parsnips

Ingredients: cold, boiled parsnips pepper butter salt

Method:

Cut parsnips in lengthwise slices. Place in butter until well browned. Sprinkle with salt and pepper.

Stuffed Peppers

Ingredients:

6 green peppers

1 onion

2 tbsp. butter

1/3 c. brown sauce

3 tbsp. crumbs

8 tbsp. chopped ham salt pepper

Method:

Cut a slice from stem end or cut peppers lengthwise. Remove all seeds and parboil 10 minutes. Do not leave in water. Cut onion in small pieces and brown in butter. Add sauce and bread crumbs. Sprinkle with pepper and salt. Fill peppers with mixture. Cover with buttered crumbs and bake 10 minutes in a hot oven.

Winter Squash

Steamed:

Cut squash in pieces, remove seeds and stringy portion, and pare. Steam until soft. Mash and season with butter, salt, and pepper.

Baked:

Cut in 2-inch pieces, remove seeds and stringy portion, place in a pan, cover and bake until soft in a slow oven. Mash and serve in the shell or remove from the shell, mash, and season.