PARSNIP PATTIES

6 or 7 parsnips

1 tablespoon butter or shortening

2 eggs

½ cup bread crumbs, dry

1 teaspoon sugar

½ teaspoon salt

little pepper

milk

Boil parsnips in salted water. When soft, peel and remove the core then mash. Add shortening, bread crumbs, salt, pepper, sugar and 1 egg and the white of the other, beaten. Mix well and form into cakes. Beat the remaining egg yolk with a little milk added. Dip the cakes into the egg, roll in corn meal or bread crumbs and fry to a nice brown.