Hash(ed) Brown(s) (Potatoes)

[Beverly Flanigan]

These are the cooked potatoes, I think ("cold" suggests they were hot once,
when boiled).  But they just don't compare to potatoes sliced thin and
fried raw--the ONLY way we had them on the farm!  I never could abide
(that's an old term) hash browns.

Beverly

At 01:31 PM 7/28/2006, you wrote:
> > Poster:       Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU>
> > Subject:      Re: Hash(ed) Brown(s) (Potatoes)
>
> >>"Hash browns" were served in the Dominican Republic, so I thought I'd
> >>re-check "hash(ed) brown potatoes."
> >>...
> >>...
> >>...
> >>_http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/hash_browns/_
> >>(http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/hash_browns/)
> >>...
> >>
> >>30 November  1892, Indiana (PA) Progress, pg. 7:
> >>Mrs. Rorer gave her audience a  shock the other day while lecturing at
> >> the
> >>Health and Food Exhibition in New  Haven, Conn., by prophesying dire
> >>disaster as
> >>a result of indulgence in "hashed  brown potatoes." She had visited
> >> insane
> >>asylums, she said, and found that many  of the inmates had been
> >>addicted to the
> >>use of potatoes fried after being  boiled. Ergo, potatoes cooked in this
> >> way
> >>appear to produce insanity.
> >>
> > This explains a good deal!
>
>Here's a 1905 (unverified) "hashed browned potatoes":
>
>----
>Hashed Browned Potatoes
>
>Chop four cold potatoes fine, and add one teaspoonful of salt
>and a very little pepper.  Put a tablespoonful of butter in the
>frying-pan, and turn it so it runs all over;  when it bubbles
>put in the potatoes, and smooth them evenly over the pan.  Cook
>till they are brown and crusty on the bottom; then put in a
>teaspoonful of chopped parsley, and fold over like an omelette.
>
>The Project Gutenberg eBook, A Little Cook Book for a Little Girl, by
>Caroline French Benton (1905)
>http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16514/16514-8.txt
>----
>
>Chris Waigl
>uh, this is exactly the OTHER type of pan-fried potatoes compared to the
>asylum cite... which ones are hash browns supposed to be -- the raw or the
>cooked ones (before frying)?
>
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