Editing Hash browns (section)

== History ==
The following recipe for "brown hashed potatoes" appears in the 1835 edition of the ''Minnesota Farmers' Institute Annual'':<ref name="min-farmers">{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mTsZAQAAIAAJ |title=Minnesota Farmers' Institute Annual |date=1835 |pages=270 |language=en}} Cited by [http://www.theoldfoodie.com/2012/06/incomplete-history-of-hash-browns.html ''The Old Foodie''], whose article is cited by [https://www.tastingtable.com/1170875/the-hazy-origin-of-hash-browns/ ''TastingTable''].</ref>

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|text=Chop cold boiled potatoes and season with [[salt]] and [[Black pepper|pepper]]. Put some [[clarified butter]] into the frying pan. Add the potatoes, cover and cook slowly until the potatoes are nicely browned on the underside. Fold and turn out on a warm platter.
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Hash browns first started appearing on breakfast menus in New York City in the 1890s. The name was gradually changed to "hash-brown potatoes".<ref>{{cite book |title = American Language Supplement 2 |first = H. L. |last=Mencken |author-link=H. L. Mencken |publisher = Knopf Doubleday |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=G-WrlQMn8OYC&q=hash+brown+potatoes+H+L+Mencken&pg=PT709 |date = 2012 |isbn = 978-0-307-81344-2 |access-date = December 2, 2015 }}</ref><ref name="auto">{{cite web | url=https://www.tastingtable.com/1170875/the-hazy-origin-of-hash-browns/ | title=The Hazy Origin of Hash Browns | date=22 January 2023 }}</ref>