Scalloped Potatoes

Scalloped Potatoes

4 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups milk
4 cups thinly sliced potatoes

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

Melt butter in heavy saucepan.

Whisk flour into melted butter.

Add salt.

Whisk in milk.

Stir mixture over low heat until thickened and bubbly.

Arrange thinly sliced potatoes in generously buttered casserole dish.

Pour milk mixture over potatoes.

Bake (covered) for 60 minutes.

Uncover and bake 30 additional minutes.

Note: This recipe was said to be one of the favorites of William "Wild Bill" Sunomono, yet another member of the clan that terrorized the Old Wild West. He always called them Scalped Potatoes. He was either a very clever person or he did not enunciate clearly.