Potato Ribbons
Ingredients
Directions
Peel the potatoes smoothly.
Pare each potato into spirals, about ⅛ inch thick, without breaking the parings.
Cover the spirals with a napkin until all are cut.
Fry the spirals in hot fat until light brown.
Sprinkle with coarse sea salt before serving.
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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