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Kartupeļi

Potatoes three ways

  • Serves 4–6
  • about 45 minutes
  • Melnraksts · vēl nav izmēģināts

1796Kartupeli

Modernizētslpp. 252–253 · PDF 266–267
4 porcijas

The book gives no quantities; the amounts below are ours.

Method

4 soļi
  1. Scrub the potatoes well. Put them in a pan of cold salted water, bring to the boil and simmer for 20–25 minutes, until a knife slides in easily. Drain.
  2. In their jackets: serve them hot in their skins, with butter and salt on the table.
  3. Stewed in cream: peel them while still warm and cut into 1 cm slices. Melt the butter in a wide, deep pan or flameproof dish, add the onion and cook gently for 3–4 minutes without browning. Add the potatoes, cream, salt and mace, cover and cook over low heat for 10–15 minutes, shaking the pan now and then, until the cream has thickened and coats the potatoes. Scatter with parsley and chives.
  4. Fried: let the boiled potatoes cool, then peel and slice them. Melt the butter in a large frying pan, add the onion and potatoes and fry over medium heat for 12–15 minutes, turning now and then, until golden brown. Season with salt.

Notes

What the book says vs. what we added

the three ways are the book's: boiled in their skins ("called potatoes in uniform") and eaten with butter or salt; peeled, sliced and stewed in a deep dish with butter, fresh cream, a little salt, mace and finely cut onions, then sprinkled with parsley and loki; or fried golden brown in a pan with butter and onions. Cooking the onion first and all amounts and times are ours.

"Potatoes in uniform"

the book's kartupeļi ar munderēm is the German Kartoffeln in der Montur, potatoes boiled in their jackets. Latvians still say kartupeļi mundierī.

*Loki* are green onion leaves: spring onion tops or chives.

Fresh cream

salds krējums is sweet (unsoured) cream, not sour cream.

Context

potatoes were still fairly new in 1796. Courland's Duke Jacob is said to have received potatoes from Hamburg in 1673, but for most of the 18th century they were a manor crop. Latvian farmers took them up widely only in the 19th century, and in some places rāciņi came to mean potatoes. This book, though, keeps them apart: kartupeļi here, turnips under rāciņi (06-019, 06-029).

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