Potato Straws
Ingredients
Directions
Cut potatoes into strips about ¼ inch square and 1¼ inches long.
Soak in cold water for 1 hour.
Dry with a clean cloth.
Fry in hot oil until golden brown.
Drain on paper towels, season with coarse sea 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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