Purée De Pommes De Terre

Name: Purée De Pommes De Terre (Potato Purée)
Cuisine: France
Ingredients: 2½ ozs. of butter, not quite ½ pint of milk, salt and pepper; 2½ ozs. of butter, not quite ½ pint of milk, salt and pepper; 2½ ozs. of butter, not quite ½ pint of milk, salt and pepper; 2½ ozs. of butter, not quite ½ pint of milk, salt and pepper; 2 lbs. of potatoes

Potato Purée

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Recipes of all Nations

By Countess Morphy

Published 1935

About

The real French purée of potatoes is something so vastly different from our “mashed potatoes,” and so typically French, that it cannot be omitted from a book on French cookery.

Ingredients

2 lbs. of potatoes
2½ ozs. of butter, not quite ½

Europe
France
Side dish
Vegetarian
Gluten-free

Method

Peel and quarter the potatoes and put them in a saucepan with just enough boiling salted water to cover. Cover the saucepan, bring to the boil and boil for 20 minutes. Drain thoroughly, and rub, as rapidly as possible, through a wire sieve, into a basin. With a wooden spoon mix well, season with salt and pepper, and start adding the butter, divided in small pieces stirring vigo