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Potato Dish

4 servings

Ingredients

• 125 g potatoes (cooked in their skin, peeled, grated)
• 75 g butter
• 100 g sugar
• 50 g almonds (grated, some bitter ones among them)
• lemon zest (grated, from 1 lemon) (a little)
• 4 pcs egg yolks
• 2 tbsp rusk (crushed, moistened with cream)
• egg whites (whipped) (as needed)
• Chaudau sauce (for serving) (as needed)

Instructions

1. Weigh the cooled, peeled, and finely grated potatoes.
2. Cream the butter, then add sugar, grated almonds, grated lemon zest, egg yolks, the grated potatoes, and the crushed rusk moistened with cream.
3. After everything is well mixed, fold in the whipped egg whites and bake the dish in a mold at moderate heat for a good hour.
4. Serve unmolded with Chaudau sauce.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.