How Mashed Potatoes Came To Be

2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29

The first written evidence describing mashed potatoes dates from the 17th century.

Then came the book "Pirates of America" by the then famous Dr. Alexander Exvemelin.

It was a hit among Europeans who could learn interesting things about America. In his story, the doctor, who traveled all his life on a pirate ship, described not only the battles, but also the culinary subtleties of the lands where the ship docked.

Here is how he described the potatoes: They eat them mainly for breakfast, boil them in water that covers the potatoes, and cover them with a rag. In half an hour they are boiled and taste like chestnuts, but the locals eat them with bread and bacon.

They also prepare a special drink from potatoes. They are peeled, cut, flooded with water and filtered after a few days. The drink is called "mabi" and the planters have learned to prepare it from the locals, who are called Indians."

However, the local potatoes were quite bitter, so the Indians figured out how to deal with the problem - they left them for a long time, scattered on the ground - the sun shone on them, the rains washed them away, and finally the women trampled them barefoot to free them from the rough. leather.

The dish was known as "chunyo". The French "stole" the technology, but made it more sophisticated - boiled potatoes were peeled and then mashed with a spoon until they became a pulp.

They called the puree dish - from the French puree - the purest.