NYPL cookbooks (part three)

[Fred Shapiro]

On Thu, 23 Mar 2000 Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:

> MASHED POTATOES--John Mariani's EAF&D, pg. 252, ""'Mashed potatoes' (first in
> print in 1896)..."  "To Mash Potatoes" is in THE HOUSEKEEPER'S BOOK
> (Philadelphia, 1837), pg. 96.

The OED has "mashed potatoes" in 1747.


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