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Saratoga Potatoes

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Saratoga Potatoes

Saratoga Potatoes

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Purchase a frying kettle with a basket that holds 4 to 8 quarts.

  2. Slice the potatoes thinly using a slicer.

  3. Thoroughly dry the sliced potatoes with clean towels.

  4. Heat the lard in the kettle.

  5. Fry the potato slices until golden brown.

  6. Remove the basket from the lard and let it rest on a sheet of brown paper.

  7. Sprinkle fine table salt over the chips and arrange them on a platter without crowding.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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