Subject: Hash Brown Casserole
Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking
From: Recipe Oasis (abautsch at ev1.net)
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 19:54:05 -0500
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Hash Brown Casserole
1 32oz. Bag frozen Hash Browns (slightly thawed)
1/2 Cup Melted Butter
1 8 oz. Carton of Sour Cream
Salt and Pepper to taste
1 Can Cream of Chicken soup
2 Cups Crushed Potato Chips
1 Cup Shredded Cheddar Cheese
1/4 Cup Melted Butter
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Combine first 6 ingredients and spread in a 13x9" cake pan, slightly greased. When ready to bake, combine the 2 cups of crushed potato chips and 1/4 cup melted butter and spread on top of hash brown mixture. Bake for 1 hour.
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From: biig (biig at mnsi.net)
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 12:19:05 -0400
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Does anyone have a recipe "not" using shredded raw potatoes, but the small cubes. There are lots online, but they don't specify if the potatoes are shredded or not.....tia....Sharon
From: Jill (jmcquown at bellsouth.net)
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 11:51:23 -0500
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Beware: This recipe contains a can of soup!
1 stick butter (8 Tbs.), cut in half
1 lb. bag of cubed hash brown potatoes (I know Ore Ida makes them).
1 can cream of chicken or cream of celery soup, undiluted
1 c. sour cream
2 c. shredded cheddar cheese
1/2 tsp. pepper
1/2-1 tsp. salt
1/4 c. chopped onion
1-1/2 c. cornflake crumbs (found on the baking aisle)
Melt 1/2 stick of butter (4 Tbs.) in a 9X13 baking dish (pyrex, for example). Add the frozen potatoes in a single layer. In a mixing bowl, combine the soup, sour cream, cheese, salt and pepper. Pour mixture over the potatoes. Melt the other 4 Tbs. of butter and combine with the cornflake crumbs. Sprinkle the crumb topping over the casserole. Bake at 350F for 30 minutes covered (foil is fine) and then 15 minutes uncovered until the top is nicely browned.
From: biig (biig at mnsi.net)
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 13:00:46 -0400
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> Beware: This recipe contains a can of soup!
Thanks Jill. This will do it. I have all ingred. except the corn flakes, so I'll use my seasoned bread crumbs...dh likes that for topping. ..Sharon
From: aem (aem_again at yahoo.com)
Date: 20 Sep 2006 10:55:24 -0700
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> > 1 stick butter (8 Tbs.), cut in half
> > 1 c. sour cream
> > 2 c. shredded cheddar cheese
Wow. A stick of butter, a cup of sour cream, 2 cups of cheese, and a can of soup, all for 1 pound of potatoes? Who could notice whether the potatoes are cubed or shredded? I'd want at least two pounds of potatoes to accommodate all that fat. -aem
From: Jill (jmcquown at bellsouth.net)
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 13:14:22 -0500
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> Wow. A stick of butter, a cup of sour cream, 2 cups of cheese, and a
> can of soup, all for 1 pound of potatoes? Who could notice whether
> the potatoes are cubed or shredded? I'd want at least two pounds of
> potatoes to accommodate all that fat. -aem
I never said it was a low-fat recipe, although of course you could probably reduce it some by using that non-fat sour cream, reduced fat cheese and a butter substitute. The recipe was given to me by a woman I worked with back in the 1980's; she brought it to a company pot-luck thing. Now that you mention it, I think the one time I made it I got the 2 pound bag of cubed "hash browns".
From: Wayne Boatwright (wayneboatwright_at_gmail.com)
Date: 20 Sep 2006 20:28:44 +0200
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> I never said it was a low-fat recipe, although of course you could
> probably reduce it some by using that non-fat sour cream, reduced fat
> cheese and a butter substitute. The recipe was given to me by a woman I
> worked with back in the 1980's; she brought it to a company pot-luck
> thing. Now that you mention it, I think the one time I made it I got
> the 2 pound bag of cubed "hash browns".
I have also used the "potatoes O'Brien' style for this.
From: biig (biig at mnsi.net)
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 15:10:08 -0400
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> in the 1980's; she brought it to a company pot-luck thing. Now that you
> mention it, I think the one time I made it I got the 2 pound bag of cubed
> "hash browns".
The package weight of mine is two pounds also....Sharon
From: Andy (q)
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 17:57:05 -0500
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> I never said it was a low-fat recipe
The best recipes never are! [sigh]
From: Virginia Tadrzynski (tadx6 at enter.net)
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 13:39:50 -0400
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> 1-1/2 c. cornflake crumbs (found on the baking aisle)
You mentioned 'corn flake crumbs'.....I find it easier to put regular cheap cornflakes in a ziplock and hand them to my 15 year old daughter. Then have the younger brother (13) tell her the 22 year old brother said her butt looks fat in those jeans. By the time I retrieve the 'flakes' after she pummells the hell out of the older one with them, they are officially crumbs.
-ginny
From: biig (biig at mnsi.net)
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 14:06:16 -0400
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> You mentioned 'corn flake crumbs'.....I find it easier to put regular cheap
> cornflakes in a ziplock and hand them to my 15 year old daughter. Then have
> the younger brother (13) tell her the 22 year old brother said her butt
> looks fat in those jeans. By the time I retrieve the 'flakes' after she
> pummells the hell out of the older one with them, they are officially
> crumbs.
ROFL.... I don't have any cornflakes either....<G>......Sharon
From: jmcquown (jmcquown at bellsouth.net)
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 13:16:50 -0500
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> You mentioned 'corn flake crumbs'.....I find it easier to put regular
> cheap cornflakes in a ziplock and hand them to my 15 year old
LOL The problem is, I can't find cheap cornflakes. A box of cereal these days, even simple cornflakes, costs close to $5. It's ridiculous. The cornflake crumbs on cost half that and last forever. Of course, I don't have children to crush the cornflakes for me :)
From: werty (werty at swissinfo.org)
Date: 22 Sep 2006 21:09:31 -0700
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Brown potatoes first ,
fully cook all onions .
Sour cream , soup , and cheddar cheese , butter
can be cooked together and taste "tested" .
Use this as your topping .
cornflakes crumbs can go on top
Bake at 450 for 2 seconds .......or for appearance .
You already know everything is cooked proper, you tasted individually.
The reason to keep separated is for flavor. Next time put everything in a blender and compare with my method .
There's too much chance of getting over cook on the cheddar cheese /soup and under cook on potatoes , so why take the gamble when you can do it right .
From: gloria p (puester at worldnet.att.net)
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 17:34:40 GMT
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> Does anyone have a recipe "not" using shredded raw potatoes, but the
> small cubes. There are lots online, but they don't specify if the
> potatoes are shredded or not.....tia....Sharon
There's no reason you can't make any shredded potato casserole with the
cubed potatoes. It's called "thinking outside the box".
From: biig (biig at mnsi.net)
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 14:09:25 -0400
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Puester wrote:
> biig wrote:
> > Does anyone have a recipe "not" using shredded raw potatoes, but the
> > small cubes. There are lots online, but they don't specify if the
> > potatoes are shredded or not.....tia....Sharon
>
> There's no reason you can't make any shredded potato casserole with the
> cubed potatoes. It's called "thinking outside the box".
The bag of frozen hash browns that I have, has seasoning in it.
From: ms_peacock (ms_peacock at wbsnet.org)
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 16:19:41 -0600
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> The bag of frozen hash browns that I have, has seasoning in it.
That's still no reason it can't be substituted in any hash brown casserole recipe.
Ms P
From: Wayne Boatwright (wayneboatwright_at_gmail.com)
Date: 20 Sep 2006 20:27:37 +0200
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> There's no reason you can't make any shredded potato casserole with the
> cubed potatoes. It's called "thinking outside the box".
That's difficult to do if you've been sealed inside the box. :-)
(not at all implying that Sharon has been)
From: biig (biig at mnsi.net)
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 15:10:42 -0400
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> > There's no reason you can't make any shredded potato casserole with the
> > cubed potatoes. It's called "thinking outside the box".
>
> That's difficult to do if you've been sealed inside the box. :-)
>
> (not at all implying that Sharon has been)
LOL....
From: Dave Smith (adavid.smith at sympatico.ca)
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 20:46:05 -0400
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> Does anyone have a recipe "not" using shredded raw potatoes, but the
> small cubes. There are lots online, but they don't specify if the
> potatoes are shredded or not.....tia....Sharon
I need to get my eyes checked, or my dyslexia in check. I thought the subject was Hash Brownie casserole.
From: Damsel in dis Dress (damsel.in.dis.dress at gmail.com)
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 21:15:19 -0500
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>I need to get my eyes checked, or my dyslexia in check. I thought the
>subject was Hash Brownie casserole.
It was a flashback. ;o)
From: Andy (q)
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 21:44:19 -0500
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> It was a flashback. ;o)
I'm too OLD to flashback! I can only get back to last Monday. ;)
From: Damsel in dis Dress (damsel.in.dis.dress at gmail.com)
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 21:54:33 -0500
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>> It was a flashback. ;o)
>
>I'm too OLD to flashback! I can only get back to last Monday. ;)
Then you're not old ENOUGH. Short term memory is the first to go.
<playful thwack>
From: Andy (q)
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 22:16:39 -0500
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> Then you're not old ENOUGH. Short term memory is the first to go.
Well there's my problem!
I have a great memory, it's just short!
And I worried so much.
I think we're having fish on Friday. I hope I'll remember! :D