Steamed Potatoes
Origin: Clarksville, Tennessee
Source: Martha McCulloch-Williams, 1913
Ingredients
- 12 whole new potatoes
- 1 heaping tablespoon butter
- 1/2 pint milk
- 10 drops onion juice
- salt
- pepper
- 1 teaspoon parsley
Instructions
- Wash clean a dozen well-grown new potatoes.
- Steam until a fork will pierce, then dry in heat five minutes.
- Peel, and throw into a skillet with a heaping tablespoonful of butter well-rolled in flour, half a pint of rich milk, ten drops onion juice, salt and pepper to taste, and a teaspoonful of chopped parsley. The sauce must be bubbling when the potatoes are put in.
- Toss them in it for five minutes.
- Put in a deep dish and pour the gravy over. Serve very hot.