Kartoffel Kloesse

Ingredients

• 6 medium sized potatoes
• 2 eggs
• 34 c flour
• 12 c bread crumbs
• 14 tsp nutmeg
• salt
• 14 lb butter
• 12 c bread crumbs or cracker meal

Directions

1. Boil potatoes in jackets skin and mash
2. Spread to dry out moisture
3. Put them in large bowl and add 2 level teaspoonfuls salt
4. Make hollow and break into this two eggs
5. Sift in flour add cracker meal and nutmeg
6. Mix and form into dry balls if too wet add more cracker meal
7. Drop small balls into boiling salted water
8. When these potato balls come to surface of water allow to boil 3 minutes
9. Center on platter and add dressing made as follows
10. Melt butter in frying pan add bread crumbs
11. Brown and spread on potato balls
12. Makes 18