Potato Cake I
Origin: Florence, Italy
Source: Pellegrino Artusi, 1891
Ingredients
- 500 g potatoes
- 50 g butter
- 1/2 glass good milk or cream
- 2 spoonful grated Parmesan
- 2 count eggs
- salt
- fine breadcrumbs
Instructions
- Make the potato puree as in No. 443, let it cool, then stir in the Parmesan and eggs.
- Butter a pie dish, dust with fine breadcrumbs, and pour in the mixture.
- Shape into a flat cake about one to one-and-a-half fingers high and brown under a Dutch oven; serve hot (or make small individual cakes in moulds).