potatoes and point

— I well remember partaking, when a child four or five years old, with other little ones, of the dish referred to, viz., "potatoes-and-point,"—and no meat at all entered into its composition—which consisted of boiled potatoes mashed up with a little milk. […] Every now and then, on the word of command—"Point!"—being given by the nurse, we all pointed our spoons to the ceiling and then fell to again. […] All parents also know how easily young children are enticed into anything like playing at a game, and this "potatoes-and-point" in our eyes almost amounted to one.