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Potatoes Fried

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Potatoes Fried

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Peel and cut the potatoes into pieces ½ inch wide and as long as the potato.

  2. Soak the cut potatoes in cold water until ready to use.

  3. Drop the potatoes into boiling lard.

  4. When nearly done, remove them with a skimmer and drain.

  5. Bring the lard back to a boil, then return the potatoes and fry until fully cooked.

  6. Sprinkle with coarse sea salt and serve very hot.

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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