Excerpt from The Up-to-Date Cook Book of Tested RecipesTwelve potatoes pared and grated, one onion sliced, one table spoonful of parsley, one cup un'skimmed milk or cream, two table spoonfuls of butter, one tablespoonful of corn starch wet with cold milk, one teaspoonful of sugar, two quarts boiling water, pinch of soda in milk. Parboil the potatoes ten minutes, throw off the water, and put them into two quarts of boiling water, cook in this one hour, with the onions, replenish from the kettle as it boils away, then set through a fine colander. Season with pep per, salt and parsley, reheat and when it bubbles up stir m the butter and corn starch, boil up, add milk and serve.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.