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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 the potatoes into eighths lengthwise.

  3. Soak the potatoes in cold water for 1 hour.

  4. Remove the potatoes from the water and dry them between towels.

  5. Fry the potatoes in deep fat until cooked, but do not let the fat get too hot.

  6. Drain the fried potatoes on paper and sprinkle with salt.

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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