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Mashed Potato

Rice, Grain and Starch Dishes

Mashed potato, colloquially called mash in British English, is a dish made by mashing boiled or steamed potatoes, usually with added milk, butter, salt, and pepper, and is generally served as a side dish to meat or vegetables. A more roughly mashed version is sometimes called smashed potatoes, and dehydrated instant or frozen versions are also commercially available. Mashed potato is also used as an ingredient in other dishes, such as dumplings and gnocchi, and the dish is associated with the United Kingdom. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Classification
Course
Side Dish 1
Dietary Suitability
Contains Meat or Poultry 1
Origin Period, From (Year)
from 1747 1
Connections

Expresses Tradition

Lenten Fasting Foods, Food Traditions
Source Mashed Potato (Wikipedia)

In Cuisine

British Cuisine, Cuisines
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German Cuisine, Cuisines
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Indian Cuisine, Cuisines
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Swedish Cuisine, Cuisines
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Uses Ingredient

Black Pepper, Ingredients
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Butter, Ingredients
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Cream, Ingredients
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Milk, Ingredients
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Potato, Ingredients
Source Mashed Potato (Wikipedia)
In the Other Atlases

Originated In

United Kingdom

Also in Geography Atlas: where this subject originated.

Sources
1. Mashed Potato (Wikipedia)
  • History
    An early recipe is found in Hannah Glasse's The Art of Cookery, published in 1747.
  • Introduction
    Mashed potato or mashed potatoes (American, Canadian, and Australian English), colloquially known as mash (British English), is a dish made by mashing boiled or steamed potatoes, usually with added milk, butter, salt, and pepper. It is generally served as a side dish to meat or vegetables. Roughly mashed potatoes are sometimes called smashed potatoes.
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mashed_potato (dietary-suitability)
    It is generally served as a side dish to meat or vegetables.
  • In Cuisine: British Cuisine, Wikipedia category list
  • In Cuisine: German Cuisine, Wikipedia category list
  • In Cuisine: Indian Cuisine, Wikipedia category list
  • In Cuisine: Swedish Cuisine, Wikipedia category list
  • Uses Ingredient: Black Pepper, Infobox main_ingredient field: Potatoes, butter, milk or cream, salt, black pepper
  • Uses Ingredient: Potato, Infobox main_ingredient field: Potatoes, butter, milk or cream, salt, black pepper
  • Uses Ingredient: Milk, Infobox main_ingredient field: Potatoes, butter, milk or cream, salt, black pepper
  • Uses Ingredient: Butter, Infobox main_ingredient field: Potatoes, butter, milk or cream, salt, black pepper
  • Uses Ingredient: Cream, Infobox main_ingredient field: Potatoes, butter, milk or cream, salt, black pepper
  • Expresses Tradition: Lenten Fasting Foods, Article body
    It originated as a Lenten dish in Slavic regions, and is popular in Northeastern Pennsylvania and Southwestern Pennsylvania due to the large population of Catholic immigrants from those regions.
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