Potato-pie. Potatoes, long after their introduction into this country, were considered as great delicacies, and cooked in various fanciful ways.
Let me beg your diversion, lady; I'll serve you with what kinde of amour you please, besides choice fricacies, gellies, potato's.washes, baths nocturnal and diurnal, or anything.
Howard, Man of Newmarket, 1678.
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potato-pye for supper.—Take three pound of boiled and blanched potatoes, and three nutmegs, and half an ounce of cinamon beaten together, and three ounces of sugar, season your potatoes, and put them in your pie, then take the marrow of three bones rouled in yolks of eggs, and sliced lemon, and large mace, and half a pound of butter, six dates quartered, put this into your pie, and let it stand an hour in the oven, then make a sharp caudle of butter, sugar, verjuice and white-wine, put it in when vou take your pie out of the oven.
True Gentleman's Delight,WlG.