PARSNIP PATTIES
- 6 or 7 parsnips
- 1 tablespoon butter or shortening
- 2 eggs
- ½ cup bread crumbs, dry
- 1 teaspoon sugar
- ½ teaspoon salt
- little pepper
- milk
Boil parsnips in salted water. When soft, peel and remove the core then mash. Add shortening, bread crumbs, salt, pepper, sugar and 1 egg and the white of the other, beaten. Mix well and form into cakes. Beat the remaining egg yolk with a little milk added. Dip the cakes into the egg, roll in corn meal or bread crumbs and fry to a nice brown.