Serves Four
Ingredients:
- 675 gm potatoes peeled and thinly sliced, 1 garlic clove, 25 gm butter, 300 ml single cream, 50 ml milk, salt and white pepper.
Cooking Method:
- Preheat the oven to 150ºC. Place the potato slices in a bowl of cold water to remove the excess starch. Drain and pat dry with kitchen paper.
- Cut the garlic in half and rub the cut side around the inside of a wide shallow ovenproof dish. Butter the dish generously. Bend the cream and milk in a jug.
- Cover the base of the dish with a layer of potatoes. Dot a little butter over the potato layer, season with salt and pepper and then pour over a little of the cream and milk mixture.
- Continue making layers, until all the ingredients have been used up, ending with a layer of cream.
- Bake in the oven for about one and quarter hours. If the dish browns too quickly and seems to be drying out, cover with a lid or with a piece of foil.
- The potatoes are ready when they are very soft and the top is golden brown.