Mice in jackets Recipe
- 4 potatoes
- 1 tbsp oil
- 30g/1oz butter
- 6 tbsp milk
- grated cheese
- salt and freshly ground black pepper
- cherry tomatoes
- chives
- raisins
- radishes
- spring onions
- Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas 6.
- Wash the potatoes and pat them dry. Prick the skins with a fork and put the potatoes on a baking tray. Brush them all over with oil.
- Bake the potatoes until they are soft. Medium-sized potatoes take about an hour.
- Cool enough to handle? Then cut off the tops and carefully scoop out the soft potato centres. You can throw away the lids (or eat them).
- Mash the soft centres with the butter, milk and cheese. Add a pinch of salt and pepper, then pop the mixture back into the potato jackets.
- Sprinkle with cheese and cook your potatoes under the grill for a few minutes until they are golden.
- Make a nose and whiskers with half a cherry tomato held in place with a cocktail stick and chives tucked behind.
- Finish decorating with raisin eyes, radish ears and spring onion tails.
