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Souffle Potatoes

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Souffle Potatoes

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Peel the potatoes and soak them in ice water.

  2. Slice the potatoes lengthwise into thin slices and return them to ice water.

  3. Heat two frying pans with frying fat, one hotter than the other.

  4. Remove the potatoes from the water, wipe them dry, and place them in the cooler pan to cook for a few minutes.

  5. Transfer the potatoes to the hotter pan, where they will expand and puff up.

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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