European-Style

Garlic Mashed Potatoes

Optional Ingredients:
• You may add a pinch of nutmeg to the potatoes with salt and pepper
to taste.

Cooking Tips:
• Reserve a few slices of butter to place on potatoes in the serving
bowl so that the butter will melt in front of your guests.

Special Ingredients:
Yukon Gold potatoes are a relatively new variety to consumers and has
a yellow to golden skin color with an excellent texture for boiling
and mashing. Sir Walter Raleigh cultivated the humble potato at his
home in Ireland, convincing the Irish and the rest of Europe that the
potato was not poisonous, but quite fit for human consumption.

Recipe can be found in gourmet Cooking with 5 ingredients
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European-Style

Garlic Mashed Potatoes

2 pounds Yukon gold or cobbler potatoes
4 whole cloves garlic, peeled
11⁄2 cups whole milk
1⁄2 cup sour cream
8 tablespoons (1 stick) butter, cubed

• Serves 6-8.
• Peel potatoes and slice into quarters.
• Place potatoes in a large pot with a cover and fill with cold,
salted water.
• Add the garlic cloves and bring water to a boil.
• Boil uncovered for approximately 20 to 25 minutes until the largest
slices of potatoes are fork tender.
• Drain and set potatoes aside.
• In a small pan, slowly bring the milk and sour cream to a boil, then
immediately set aside.
• Mash the potatoes and garlic and place back into large pot. Set on
stove at low temperature.
• Gradually add warmed milk to potatoes while using a hand mixer to
blend. Beat until smooth and creamy.
• Using a wooden spoon stir in the butter.
• Once the butter is completely melted, remove potatoes from pot and
immediately place in serving bowl.
• Serve hot.

Out of curiosity, what so "european" about them? This type of mashed tuber
recipe has existed everywhere they are found for millenia.

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James McIninch wrote:

Out of curiosity, what so "european" about them? This type of mashed tuber
recipe has existed everywhere they are found for millenia.


Agreed. Been raised on this style since diaperhood in the early 40s.
Sounds like someone trying to spin something old into something new. And
Yukon Gold? Just where in Europe are these taters from?


jim

JimLane wrote:
James McIninch wrote:

Out of curiosity, what so "european" about them? This type of mashed
tuber recipe has existed everywhere they are found for millenia.


Agreed. Been raised on this style since diaperhood in the early 40s.
Sounds like someone trying to spin something old into something new.
And Yukon Gold? Just where in Europe are these taters from?


jim

This is pretty funny... garlic mashed potatoes are a fairly "new" rage, at
least here in the States. I don't get the big whoopla but, whatever

Yukon Gold ORIGIN: Released jointly by Agriculture Canada and the University
of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada in 1981. Yukon Gold was selected from a
cross between W5279-4 (a yellow-fleshed diploid hybrid of Solanum phureja
and haploid cv Katahdin) and Norgleam. It was tested under the pedigree
G6666-4Y.

Uh, that means they aren't grown in Europe

Jill

In article , "jmcquown"
wrote:

JimLane wrote:
James McIninch wrote:

Out of curiosity, what so "european" about them? This type of mashed
tuber recipe has existed everywhere they are found for millenia.


Agreed. Been raised on this style since diaperhood in the early 40s.
Sounds like someone trying to spin something old into something new.
And Yukon Gold? Just where in Europe are these taters from?


jim

This is pretty funny... garlic mashed potatoes are a fairly "new"
rage, at least here in the States. I don't get the big whoopla but,
whatever

Yukon Gold ORIGIN: Released jointly by Agriculture Canada and the
University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada in 1981. Yukon Gold was
selected from a cross between W5279-4 (a yellow-fleshed diploid
hybrid of Solanum phureja and haploid cv Katahdin) and Norgleam. It
was tested under the pedigree G6666-4Y.

Uh, that means they aren't grown in Europe
Jill

Are you sure? I think it means they didn't *originate* in Europe..
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