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Potatoes Fried

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Potatoes Fried

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Peel the potatoes and cut them into pieces ½ inch wide and as long as the potato.

  2. Soak the potato pieces in cold water until ready to use.

  3. Heat lard in a pot until boiling.

  4. Drop the potato pieces into the boiling lard and cook until nearly done.

  5. Remove the potatoes with a skimmer and drain them.

  6. Bring the lard back to a boil and return the potatoes to fry until fully cooked.

  7. Sprinkle with coarse sea salt and serve very hot.

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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