Pommes de terre Macaire (Baked Potato Cake)

Origin: Paris, France

Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Bake Hollande potatoes in the oven.
  2. As soon as they are cooked, empty them and collect the pulp in a dish.
  3. Season with salt and pepper and work the pulp with a fork, adding 200 grammes of butter per kilo.
  4. Spread the composition as a flat cake in a frying pan holding very hot clarified butter.
  5. Colour it well on both sides.

View on Foodymology