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This simple recipe for potatoes is from "Civil War Recipes Receipts from the Pages of Godey's Lady's Book".
New Potatoes A La Francaise
Skin, wash and wipe dry early potatoes; melt some butter in a stew pan; when it is quite hot place the potatoes in it, simmer them slowly, turn them occasionally, and when done take them up and place them in another stew pan, with sufficient fresh butter to form a sauce, shake them over the fire merely till the butter is melted, arrange them in a dish, pour the butter over them and stew a little fine salt upon them, serve as hot as possible. In Italy olive oil is employed instead of butter, and is really preferable.
New Potatoes A La Francaise
Skin, wash and wipe dry early potatoes; melt some butter in a stew pan; when it is quite hot place the potatoes in it, simmer them slowly, turn them occasionally, and when done take them up and place them in another stew pan, with sufficient fresh butter to form a sauce, shake them over the fire merely till the butter is melted, arrange them in a dish, pour the butter over them and stew a little fine salt upon them, serve as hot as possible. In Italy olive oil is employed instead of butter, and is really preferable.