Casserole Of Potatoes Recipe

1 pound mashed potatoes.

2 tablespoons soaked lentils.

1 ounce butter.

1/2 ounce flour.

1/2 pint water.

1 shalot, or small onion.

1 egg.

1 hard-boiled ditto.

1 strip of lemon peel.

1 small lump of sugar.

2 teaspoons tomato sauce.

1/2 teaspoon salt.

Pepper to taste.



Boil the lentils, water, lemon-peel and half the butter gently for one

hour. Remove the lemon-peel and add the sugar, salt and shalot chopped,

and boil for fifteen minutes. Make a paste of the flour and the other

half ounce of butter, place this in the stew and stir briskly while it

boils for five minutes. Then add the tomato sauce and the hard-boiled

egg cut into the shape of dice. Have ready the mashed potato prepared as

follows:--place it on a small dish and shape into a ring or wall about

two and a half inches high and half an inch thick, ornament the outside

with a fork, brush over with egg, and brown in the oven. Pour the stew

into the hollow centre, and serve quickly.

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