Courgette, Potato and Cheese Casserole

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Crossposted to cookbook_challenge.

This is again from Mum's recipe book and I think we are still in the 1970s, though we may be moving into the 1980s. Certainly Mum was never much interested in vegetarian cookery until she gained a vegetarian son-in-law-to-be in the mid 1990s so I'm expecting the "Vegetables" section of her book (which this comes from) to be a bit sparser than the "Meat" section.

Ingredients

1 lb courgettes, thinly sliced
4 potatoes, thinly sliced
6 oz mild cheddar cheese - grated
2 oz fresh breadcrumbs
6-8 tspoons chopped parsley (or tarragon)
1 1/2 tbs olive oil
3 tbs butter
Salt and pepper
2 cloves garlic - chopped


Method
Parboil sliced potatoes 1/4 hr and courgettes 10 minutes.

Butter 2.5 pint casserole.

Lay 1/3 of courgette and potato mixture.

Sprinkle with 1/3 of the cheese and 1/3 of the breadcrumbs, some parsley, garlic, salt and pepper and drip on 1/2 tbs of olive oil.

Repeat twice.

Dot with butter and pour 4 tablespoons water over all.

Cover and bake at 350F for 1 hour.


Changes, Mistakes and Substitutions
On the assumption this is a recipe from an age where the British boiled any vegetable to death before doing anything else with it, I only parboiled the potatoes for 10 minutes and didn't parboil the courgette at all.

I was using half quantities but was generous with the breadcrumbs, cheese and water.

Verdict
Well, obviously, this is bake not a casserole. Other than that it was unobjectionable but dull.