Baked potatoes are a bit of a comfort food in my household, but they take more than an hour to cook. Sometimes you don’t have that much time. I’ve been making these halved-baked potatoes since I was a teenager.
My mother had multiple recipes and cook books by Alison Holst. She was a Kiwi celebrity cook from the 1960s to the 90s, featuring on TV cooking shows and in newspaper cooking columns. What made her so popular? I think it was her down to earth, practical recipes for everyday life. I still have several ragged copies of her recipe books as they were my go-to-recipes for much of my early married life. When I first left home, my Mother gave me a copy of “Dollars and Sense” and I ended up replacing that copy, when it fell apart from daily use!
Over the years, I’ve adapted many of her recipes and this is one of them.
I hope you enjoy the simplicity and the goodness as much as we do.
