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Gratin De Pommes De Terre Aux Anchois Recipe
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Ingredients
- cup ⅔minced onions
- 2 Tb butter
- ½ Ib. diced raw potatoes about 2 cups
- inches A 3- to 4-cup baking dish 1½ to 2deep, such as an 8-inch pyrex pie plate
- 8 in to 10 anchovy filets packedolive oil
- 3 cups eggs beaten with 1½whipping cream ½ tsp salt, and ⅛ tsp pepper; OR 2well-seasoned béchamel sauce
- cup ¼grated Swiss cheese
- 1 Tb oil from anchovy can or butter
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Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- Cook the onions slowly in butter for 5 minutes or so, until tender but not browned.
- Drop potatoes in boiling salted water and cook for 6 to 8 minutes, or until barely done. Drain thoroughly.
- Butter the baking dish. Spread half the potatoes in the bottom, then half the cooked onions. Over them lay the anchovy filets, then the rest of the onions, and finally the remaining potatoes.
- Pour the eggs and cream, or the béchamel sauce, over the potatoes and shake dish to send liquid to bottom.
- Spread on the cheese. Dribble on the oil, or dot with the butter.
- (*) May be prepared ahead to this point.
- Bake for 30 to 40 minutes in upper third of oven until top is nicely browned.