French Fried Potatoes
Oven, in the book's wordsA good oven
Ingredients
Directions
Peel the raw potatoes and cut them into thick slices.
If the potatoes are old or wilted, soak them in cold water for 1 hour.
Dry the potatoes thoroughly.
Fry the potatoes in a deep kettle of boiling fat for about 10 minutes.
Drain the fried potatoes, 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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