Pommes de terre Macaire (Baked Potato Cake)
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- Hollande potatoes
- salt
- pepper
- 200 grammes butter
- clarified butter
Instructions
- Bake Hollande potatoes in the oven.
- As soon as they are cooked, empty them and collect the pulp in a dish.
- Season with salt and pepper and work the pulp with a fork, adding 200 grammes of butter per kilo.
- Spread the composition as a flat cake in a frying pan holding very hot clarified butter.
- Colour it well on both sides.