On Oct 21, 10:59*am, Bryan > wrote:
> On Oct 20, 1:30*pm, tert in seattle > wrote:
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> > I was craving some food from my white trash childhood ... didn't
> > have mom's recipe handy so I went with Joy. *Modified slightly:
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> > 2 large russet potatoes, sliced 2-3 mm
> > 1/4 onion, sliced thinly
> > 2 slices ham lunch meat, cut into 1 cm squares
> > 1/2 c milk
> > 1/2 c cream
> > salt & pepper
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> > in a greased 9x9" baking dish layer potatoes/ham/onions, lightly
> > s&p each layer (adjust salt amount for saltiness of ham)
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> > pour milk & cream over the top
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> > bake for an hour or so at 400F, covered for first 1/2 hour
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> > it was pretty good! *A lot like mom's, but without the cheese.
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> Except for the "ham lunch meat," you didn't make it in a particularly
> trashy way. *Though I don't think they qualify as "scalloped" w/o
> cheese.
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Old-timey scalloped potatoes never had cheese, in my world - I think
of it as a "new" thing, happening along with putting cheese on
everything possible. (Fish, for instance. Yuck.) None of my old
(50s-60s eras) church and community cookbooks have cheese in the
scalloped potato recipes.

N.