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Mice in jackets |
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by Annabel Karmel, from
Children's First Cookbook |
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Preparation time less than 30 mins
Cooking time 1 to 2 hours
Ingredients
4 potatoes
1
tbsp oil
30g/1oz butter
6 tbsp milk
grated cheese
salt
and freshly ground black pepper
cherry
tomatoes
chives
raisins
radishes
spring onions
Method
1. Preheat the oven
to 200C/400F/Gas 6.
2. Wash the potatoes and pat them dry. Prick
the skins with a fork and put the potatoes on a baking tray. Brush
them all over with oil.
3. Bake the potatoes until they are soft.
Medium-sized potatoes take about an hour.
4. Cool enough to
handle? Then cut off the tops and carefully scoop out the soft potato
centres. You can throw away the lids (or eat them).
5. Mash the
soft centres with the butter, milk and cheese. Add a pinch of salt
and pepper, then pop the mixture back into the potato jackets.
6.
Sprinkle with cheese and cook your potatoes under the grill for a few
minutes until they are golden.
7. Make a nose and whiskers with
half a cherry tomato held in place with a cocktail stick and chives
tucked behind.
8. Finish decorating with raisin eyes, radish ears
and spring onion tails.