Saratoga Potatoes
Ingredients
Directions
Cut raw potatoes into very thin slices.
Soak the slices in cold water for one hour.
Dry the slices with a towel.
Drop the dried slices into boiling fat.
When browned, remove from the fat and sprinkle with coarse sea salt.
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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