Lucy Madden

Alice B. Toklas Potatoes

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Potato Year: 300 Classic Recipes
The Potato Year

By Lucy Madden

Published 2015

  • About

This is very self-indulgent and wonderful. It must have been served to Picasso and Hemingway, who were regular guests of Alice B. Toklas and her companion Gertrude Stein in pre-war Paris. The recipe is as she wrote it.

Method

‘Bake four large potatoes, peel them and put through the food mill. While the potatoes are still hot, add two cups of butter and one teaspoon of salt. Undoubtedly 1 lb of butter is extravagant but try it once.’