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French Fried Potatoes

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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French Fried Potatoes

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Peel and cut the potatoes into your desired shape.

  2. Drain and dry the potatoes with a cloth.

  3. Heat lard in a pan until boiling hot.

  4. Fry the potatoes until they are a very light brown.

  5. Sprinkle with coarse sea salt as you remove them from the oil.

  6. Drain the fried potatoes on paper towels to remove excess grease.

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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