A photograph of a cheesy potato casserole in a white baking dish.

Politics. Religion. Funeral potatoes. All topics that are not fit for polite company. But nobody can resist a good potato. Like beloved children’s author A.A. Milne said, “What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.”

With Pioneer Day just around the corner, I want to offer you a bit of homemade wisdom: the most correct recipe for funeral potatoes.

Determining this recipe required extensive research. After searching through stacks of cookbooks scouring every starch section for this beloved recipe, the right way to make funeral potatoes became increasingly clear. I’ve eaten alternative forms of funeral potatoes that you wouldn’t believe. Everything from funeral potato skins to funeral potatoes with crushed up potato chips on top (the audacity!), but it turns out that this recipe is an exact science.

And this recipe is a secret just between me and you, dear Deseret News reader.

This casserole will give you 12 heaping servings of Utah’s most classic dish.

So there you have it: the most correct funeral potato recipe there is. Tried and tested, faithful and true, these spuds will save the day if you are at a loss for cooking this year.

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