WINTER SALAD.

Cut up 1 lb. of cold boiled potatoes, grate fine 1 onion and mix with these, add watercress, or mustard and cress, and boiled and sliced beetroot; flavour with pepper, salt, oil, and vinegar as above.  Hard-boiled eggs may be cut into slices and added, and sliced apples or pieces of orange may be advantageously mixed with the other ingredients.

When oranges are added to a salad the onion must be left out.

POTATO COOKERY

POTATO BIRD’S NEST.

A plateful of mashed potatoes, 2 lbs. of spinach well cooked and chopped, 3 hard-boiled eggs, 1 oz. of butter.  Fry the mashed potatoes a nice brown in the butter, then place it on a dish in the shape of a ring.  Inside this spread the spinach, and place the eggs, shelled, on the top of this.  Serve as hot as possible.

POTATO CAKES

3 fair-sized potatoes, 1 egg, 2 tablespoonfuls of Allinson fine wheatmeal, pepper and salt to taste, and a pinch of nutmeg.  Peel, wash, and grate the raw potatoes; beat up the egg and mix it with the potatoes, flour, and seasoning.  Beat all well together, and fry the mixture like pancakes in oil or butter.

POTATO CHEESE.

6 oz. of mashed potatoes, 2 lemons, 6 oz. of sugar, 2 oz. of butter.  Grate the rind of the lemons and pound it well with the sugar in a mortar, add the potatoes very finely mashed; oil the butter and mix this and the lemon juice with the rest of the ingredients; when all is very thoroughly mixed, fill the mixture in a jar and keep closely covered.

POTATO CHEESECAKES.

1 lb. of mashed potatoes, 4 oz. of grated cheese, 1 oz. of butter, 2 eggs, some bread raspings, 2 tablespoonfuls of Allinson fine wheatmeal, 1/2 a teaspoonful of mustard, pepper and salt to taste.  Melt the butter and mix it with the mashed potatoes, add the cheese, flour, seasoning, mustard, and 1 of the eggs well beaten.  Mix all well, and form the mixture into cakes.  Beat up the second egg, turn the cakes into the beaten egg and raspings, and fry them in oil or butter until brown.  Serve with tomato sauce and green vegetables.

POTATO CROQUETTES.

1/2 lb. of hot mashed potatoes, the yolks of 2 eggs, 1/2 a saltspoonful of nutmeg, pepper and salt, 1 whole egg, raspings, some Allinson nut-oil or butter for frying.  Beat the potatoes well with the yolks of the eggs and the seasoning; form the mixture into balls; beat the egg well, roll the balls in the egg and breadcrumbs, and fry a nice brown.

POTATO PUDDING.

1 lb. of potatoes well mashed, 1 oz. of butter, 3 eggs, 1-1/2 oz. of sugar, the rind and juice of 1/2 a lemon, 1 gill of milk.  Beat the butter, mix it with the mashed potatoes, add the eggs well beaten, also the other ingredients, turn the mixture into a buttered pie-dish, and bake it 1/2 hour.