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Making an 18th-Century Potato Pudding
- rectang 10y ago‘It’s a lot better than I thought it would be.’ Oh? ... the boiled pudding calls for two pounds of potatoes and one pound of butter... Oh.
- bostik 10y agoWe probabbly shouldn't be surprised. I have a hard time finding a reference but I do remember very vividly the core recipe for a "sinfully delicious" Michelin 3-star restaurant's mashed potatoes. Per portion, a pound of potatoes, half a pound of butter + seasoning. Of course there are cooking techniques to consider, but the fractions for ingredients are still the same.
- douche 10y agoIs it a weird thing to use potatoes in sweet dishes? My mom/grandma/aunts always made needhams[1] with the bulk of the filling being mashed potatoes. Boiled potatoes without anything added to them are about as close to tasteless as you can get. [1] http://www.npr.org/2012/08/26/159998395/maines-needhams-a-sweet-treat-of-earthy-potatoes http://www.npr.org/2012/08/26/159998395/maines-needhams-a-sw...
- camtarn 10y agoThe recipe we've used for Scottish macaroons involves roughly an entire bag of icing sugar, about the same amount of coconut, and one small boiled potato :)
- kwhitefoot 10y agoDepends on the potato. Try Norwegian mandel potet. Delicious. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almond_potato https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almond_potato).
- riffraff 10y agoit's a rather common ingredient in sweet doughs, but I had never heard of it being used as a filling, interesting!
- elcapitan 10y ago> Boiled potatoes without anything added to them are about as close to tasteless as you can get. Hm, not my experience, but there are many types of potatoes, and usual supermarkets often stock only 2-3 that are cheaply available.
- busterarm 10y agoI'd just go for Taro at that point.
- Ronsenshi 10y agoFor anyone interested in 18-th century cooking I'd highly recommend youtbue channel Jas. Townsend and Son: https://www.youtube.com/user/jastownsendandson/videos https://www.youtube.com/user/jastownsendandson/videos They have amazing videos about that era cooking.
- j_koreth 10y agohow surprisingly! Youtube seems to have channels for everything theses days
- tomcam 10y agoGiven the other ingredients in those proportions, you could substitute an old combat boot for the potato and it would taste just fine.