Potato Biscuits - cooking recipe

Ingredients

6 good sized potatoes
1 Tbsp. butter
1 egg
1 pt. sweet milk
1/2 c. yeast

Preparation

Boil six good sized potatoes with their jackets on.
Take them out with a skimmer.
Drain and squeeze with a towel to ensure being dry.
Remove skin and mash them perfectly free from lumps. Add a tablespoon of butter, one egg and a pint of sweet milk. When cool, beat in half cup yeast.
Put in just enough flour to make a stiff dough.
When the mixture rises, make into small cakes.
Let them rise the same as biscuits.
Bake to a delicate brown.
This dough is
very fine dropped into meat soups or pot pies.