Potato Croquettes (Delmonico’s)
Cold, mashed potatoes, 2 cups.
Flour or cracker crumbs.
Salt.
Eggs, 2.
Butter.
Cooking oil.
Season the potatoes with salt and butter. Beat the whites of the eggs and work all together thoroughly. Make into small balls slightly flattened. Dip them into beaten yolks of eggs, roll in flour or cracker crumbs, and fry in hot oil.