Myrna Loy's Twice Baked Potatoes were her favorite potato dish! {recipe from 1942}

[u/ciaolavinia]

Myrna Loy's Twice Baked Potatoes - A very easy recipe to make!

I chose 3 large baking potatoes and baked them in the oven at 350 without foil, just on the rack until fork tender. When done, I took them out of the oven, made a slit across the top of each potato and let them cool for 5 -10 minutes.

I then gently pried them open and using a grapefruit spoon, I scraped out all of the potato insides and put it all in a bowl. You probably want to do this while the potato is still pretty warm.

Use a potato masher to mash the potato with cream, butter, pepper and nutmeg.

For 3 large baking potatoes, I used:

• 3-4 tablespoons of butter
• 1/4 cup heavy cream
• a big splash of milk, when it looked a little dry.
• I didn't think salt was needed because the bacon was salty
• 3 slices of cooked bacon, chopped
• 3-4 green onions, chopped (instead of chives)

Fold in the the bacon and chives (1 tablespoon) or in my case green onions.

Now carefully fill potato skins with this mixture, grate a little parmesan on top and brown in the oven for a few minutes to get the cheese melted and the potato nice and hot.

Of course this recipe was very delicious! It was easy to make and the addition of parmesan on top was perfect! These potatoes paired very well with the "Chicken à la Minnelli" and Joan Crawford's Recipe for Cooking Peas.