GARLIC POTATOES

Mom gave me this supposedly awesome recipe for Garlic potatoes.
You bake about 5 baker potatoes and one whole Garlic.
When finished you scoop out the potatoes and squeeze the tender garlic out into the potatoes and mash.
I thought I’d try this pre Thanksgiving. If it was good I’d do it for our dinner. I snipped the top off the garlic as directed and bake.
The smell coming from the oven was really strong!
Potatoes were done and I scooped them out then I tried to squeeze out the garlic. They were hard and didn’t pop out easily.
I started mashing the potatoes; I’d throw out a hardened garlic piece from time to time.
The potatoes took about a quart of milk to moisten them into mashed potatoes. They were horribly garlicky. I’d didn’t want to eat them and Mark didn’t want to eat them. I covered the bowl with a lid and put off dumping them down the drain for probably a week. Finally I got the courage.
Aargh, what an awful smell. I put the bowl in the dishwasher and washed it. For a week afterward the dishwasher smelled of garlic. The house smelled of garlic and the oven reeked. Thank goodness we bought a new oven for Christmas. It arrived before Thanksgiving. I bet the RC Willey truck that took the old oven away smelled of garlic after their trip to Wyoming. Unbelievable garlic free was the bowl and lid. Modern marvel of Plastic?
Hint: If you ever want garlic potatoes try shaking a little garlic powder in them when you are mashing them. Just thinking of Garlic potatoes makes my eyes water.