| 1 | Champ is served piled high on the dish, with a well of melted butter in the center. |
| 2 | It is eaten with a spoon from the outside, each spoonful being dipped in the well of melted butter. |
| 3 | . |
| 4 | Peel potatoes and cook in boiling water. |
| 5 | Simmer milk and scallions together for five minutes. |
| 6 | Strain potatoes and mash thoroughly. |
| 7 | Add hot milk, and the scallions, salt and pepper, and half the butter. |
| 8 | . |
| 9 | The traditional implement used for pounding potatoes was a wooden masher, pestle-shaped, called a "beetle." the poem says: . |
| 10 | There was an old woman that lived in a lamp; she had no room to beetle her champ. |
| 11 | . |
| 12 | She"s up"d with her beetle and broke the lamp, and now she has room to beetle her champ. |
