Take boiled potatoes, peel, mash well, adding cream, salt, and pepper.
Potato salad (for 20 men).
Take 6 pounds cold boiled potatoes diced in ¼-inch pieces; 2 pounds onions, raw, chopped fine; 1 bunch parsley chopped fine; season with salt and pepper. Make a French dressing as follows: 1 pint vinegar, 2 tablespoonfuls sugar (brown or white), 2 or 3 dashes red pepper, 1 ounce dry mustard, ½ pound bacon chopped fine and fried. Pour the vinegar mixture on the hot bacon and grease. Then set back on stove to keep warm, and when ready to serve pour the vinegar, grease, etc., over the potatoes, etc., then serve.
Saratoga potatoes.
Dice potatoes raw, boil them until done, then drain and set away and let cool. When cool fry in butter or lard until nice and brown. Add parsley and chopped onions, 1 quart rich milk. Thicken with ¼ pound flour. Season with salt and pepper and serve hot.
Escalloped potatoes (for 100 men).
Take 35 pounds cold boiled potatoes, 8 pounds cheese, 8 cans condensed milk, and 3 or 4 basting-spoonfuls of flour. Pare potatoes and slice them. Grate cheese fine and mix cheese evenly with potatoes in bake pan. Mix flour with milk and dilute milk with water until potatoes are covered. Bake in slow oven.
It is sometimes thought to be an improvement to use less cheese and a much larger quantity of finely ground beef suet.
Fried mush (for 20 men).
Take 2 quarts beef stock, 2 quarts water, 1 ounce salt, and set on stove and let boil for 4 or 5 minutes. Add 2 pounds corn meal. Put the meal in a flour sieve and shake it gradually, stirring it thoroly all the time, until it commences to thicken. Then set on back part of stove and let simmer for about 1 hour or till done, when it drops freely from the paddle. Pour into dish pan about 1 inch deep and set aside to cool. When cool cut into 2-inch squares. Have about ½ pound lard in frying pan. Fry to nice brown color. Serve hot with sirup.