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Saratoga Potatoes

Saratoga Potatoes are thinly sliced potatoes fried in boiling fat and salted.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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Saratoga Potatoes

Saratoga Potatoes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Peel the potatoes and slice them as thinly as possible.

Fry

  1. Drop the slices one by one into boiling fat and fry for about five minutes, turning them over until they are a good color.

  2. Remove the potatoes with a skimmer and let them drain and dry thoroughly.

Serve

  1. Sprinkle a little salt over the potatoes and serve on a hot dish with a folded napkin.

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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Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Potatoes
Starch that turns crisp on the outside and fluffy inside when fried.
Boiling fat
Cooks the slices quickly, drying the surface and producing browning and crispness.

The step that matters

Drain and dry thoroughly. Surface moisture left on the slices turns to steam and softens the crust, so draining well keeps the potatoes crisp.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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