Nanny’s Creamed Potatoes
Dice leftover, cooked boiled potatoes. Place potatoes in iron skillet, called a “spider” by Nanny. (Any heavy frying pan or an electric skillet will do.) Add a dab of butter (home churned on Nanny’s f
Ingredients
- Boiled potatoes, diced
- Butter
- 1 T flour
- Whole milk or cream to cover potatoes
- Salt
- Pepper
- Onion, diced (optional)
- Fresh parsley, chopped, or paprika
Instructions
- 1
Dice leftover, cooked boiled potatoes.
- 2
Place potatoes in iron skillet, called a “spider” by Nanny. (Any heavy frying pan or an electric skillet will do.)
- 3
Add a dab of butter (home churned on Nanny’s farm); sprinkle 1 T flour over the potatoes.
- 4
Pour in whole milk or cream to just cover potatoes.
- 5
Add salt and pepper as desired.
- 6
Cook slowly over medium heat until potatoes are warmed through and milk has thickened.
- 7
Sometimes Mother diced an onion into the potatoes before cooking.
- 8
In season, she chopped fresh parsley over the top or sprinkled with paprika.