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French Fried Potatoes

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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French Fried Potatoes

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Wash and peel the small potatoes.

  2. Cut them into eighths lengthwise.

  3. Soak the potato pieces in cold water until crisp.

  4. Dry the potatoes on a clean cloth.

  5. Fry the potatoes in deep, hot fat until brown and tender.

  6. Drain on unglazed paper.

  7. Sprinkle lightly with salt and serve.

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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