I found this one in The Ideal Cookery Book, Third Edition, available on Project Gutenberg, and was intrigued by the fact that it used potatoes to make a dessert. The ingredients weren’t expensive so I figured I had nothing to lose by trying. It actually came out pretty well, though it took much longer to make than expected as we had a three-day power outage due to an ice storm in the middle of the process. Looks like a good way to use up leftover mashed potatoes.
1 pound peeled and cooked potatoes (measured before cooking)
¼ cup butter, melted
rind and juice of 2 lemons (or 4 tablespoons bottled lemon juice)
5 oz sugar
2 eggs
pinch salt
½ teaspoon vanilla*
Rub potatoes through a sieve. Add butter, then grated rind, sugar, eggs, lemon juice and vanilla.
Spoon into a greased 9-inch pie plate. Bake at 350°F for 30 minutes.
I served this with an amaretto-flavoured hard sauce because I was afraid it would be bland. It actually wasn’t, but the hard sauce did work well with it. You could also use whipped cream to dress it up a bit.
* not called for in the recipe but I put it in anyway
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