Pommes de terre a l'etouffée Master Recipe

"Take some potatoes of a not too floury kind, peel them and cut them in pieces the size of half a matchbox. Melt some butter in a saucepan, put in your potatoes and the lid on the saucepan, and cook on a moderate fire, stirring occasionally with a wooden spoon. Do not be afraid in stirring to break the potatoes, and add more butter if necessary; there must be lots of butter which sinks in the potatoes. At the end of the process, which must be finished on a quicker fire, sprinkle with salt your potatoes, which will be at the same time neither sautées nor roasted, but crisp and golden and deliciously soft and buttery inside."

X. Marcel Boulestin

What Shall We Have Today?

1931

We don't peel the potatoes, generally.