Potato, border of

It is a very pretty dish can be made by making a border of mashed potatoes, hollow in the centre, in which can be placed various kinds of other vegetables, such as haricot beans, stewed peas, etc.

Recipe

The mashed potato should be mixed with one or two well-beaten-up eggs, and the outside of the border can be moulded by hand, to make it look smooth and neat; a piece of flexible tin, flat, will be found very useful, or even a piece of cardboard.

Decorations

If you wish to make the border ornamental, you can proceed exactly as directed under the heading rice borders, and if it is wished to make the dish particularly handsome, it can be painted outside, before being placed in the oven, with a yolk of egg beaten up with a tiny drop of hot water. When this is done, the potato border has an appearance similar in colour to the rich pastry generally seen outside a pie, or vol au vent.

Other items to mix

The inside of the potato border after it has been scooped out can be filled with plain boiled macaroni mixed with parmesan cheese, and ornamented with a little chopped parsley on the top and a few small baked red ripe tomatoes. It can be filled with white haricot beans piled up in the shape of a dome, with some chopped parsley sprinkled over the top. There are, perhaps, few dishes in vegetarian cookery that can be made to look more elegant.