Kartoffel Kloesse - cooking recipe

Ingredients

6 medium sized potatoes
2 eggs
3/4 c. flour
1/2 c. bread crumbs
1/4 tsp. nutmeg
salt
1/4 lb. butter
1/2 c. bread crumbs or cracker meal

Preparation

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