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Mashed Potatoes or Potato Purée

4 servings

Ingredients

• 1 kg potatoes
• water (a little)
• salt (a little)
• milk (a little)
• butter (a little)
• onions (a little)
• rusks (a little)
• bacon (a little)

Instructions

1. Peel 1 kg of potatoes and cook them thoroughly with water and salt, drain completely, mash finely, and pass through a colander.
2. Cook into a mash with milk or half milk, half water, and butter.
3. The mash should not be too stiff; arrange smoothly and top with onions browned in butter, finely crushed rusks browned in butter, brown butter, or finely diced, yellow-fried bacon.
4. You can also press the cooked potatoes through a grater and then process as described – this makes the purée especially fluffy.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.