Champ (or poundies)

8 servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
4 pounds Potatoes
½ pounds Chopped scallions
10 fluid ounce Milk
4 ounces Butter
Pepper

Directions

Champ is served piled high on the dish, with a well of melted butter in the center. It is eaten with a spoon from the outside, each spoonful being dipped in the well of melted butter.

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Peel potatoes and cook in boiling water. Simmer milk and scallions together for five minutes. Strain potatoes and mash thoroughly. Add hot milk, and the scallions, salt and pepper, and half the butter.

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The traditional implement used for pounding potatoes was a wooden masher, pestle-shaped, called a "beetle." The poem says: .

There was an old woman

that lived in a lamp;

she had no room

to beetle her champ.

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She's up'd with her beetle

and broke the lamp,

and now she has room

to beetle her champ.

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