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 POTATOES MONT-D'OR
Preheat the oven to 350F.  Wash and brush the potatoes with a vegetable brush because you are going to eat the skin.  Insert the tip of a sharp knife and slip a bay leaf into the slit.  Place the potatoes on a rack in an oven pan and bake for an hour.  If you are serving this dish to important dinner guests, serve the cheese whole.  Each person takes their share of cheese and peels off the skin.  Placing the cheese inside the split open potato.  Sprinkle with pepper and dot with butter.  But if you have children, cut the cheese up and place in a bowl to simplify the serving. Ingredients: 
12 medium sized potatoes 
12 bay leaves 
1 small Vacherin cheese, or Camembert 
butter 
pepper 
 
Preparation Time: 
15 Mins 
Cooking Time: 
 60 Mins 

Wine: 
 Arbois 

Country:  
 Burgundy

 
 
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