Cheshire's No.1 Supper Dish
Ingredients
2lbs. of potatoes
1 small tin of beans in brine (no points)
2oz. grated cheese
2 rashers of bacon
1 oz of fat
a pinch of curry powder
1 leek (or chive or spring onion)
Intro and Method
Sufficient for four
There's no waste in the potato supper dish.
Next time you boil potatoes cook an extra 2lbs. and put them on one side, so obviating any waste of heat. Take out two potatoes just before the other and dice them about half an inch. Mash 1 1/2 with fork while they are still hot, and put aside to cool, and add salt.
Grease a shallow dish and cover the bottom with rasping (bread crusts browned in he oven and crushed). Press in some of the mashed potatoes, and make the rest into 12 balls to be covered with raspings. Put 11 round the dish and keep one for the centre.
Now mix with the diced potatoes a pinch of curry powder, add a small tin of beans (drained), and season with pepper (no salt).
Add the grated cheese and leek with which has previously been cut up, and put in the bacon - cut into small pieces.
Place the odd ball in he centre of the dish and pour on the fat (margarine or bacon fat) and bake in a moderate oven for 30 minutes. Before serving, decorate with a little parsley and make a Victory V with grated carrot.
The potato water and liquid from beans can be made into soup.
Recipe taken from the Cheshire Women's Institutes Book Of Recipes