Potato Straws
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Cut raw potatoes into thin straws.
Dry the potato straws and sprinkle with coarse sea salt.
Fry and serve
Put the straws in a frying basket and fry for about eight minutes.
Drain the straws and serve hot.
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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What each ingredient does
- Raw potatoes
- Provide the starchy base that fries into crisp, golden straws.
The step that matters
Drying the straws before frying. Surface moisture cools the oil and turns the straws greasy and soft instead of crisp, so they must be dry before they go in.
“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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