Irish Potato Chips
Ingredients
Directions
Peel and slice the potatoes very thin.
Soak the slices in cold water, then dry them well with a cloth.
Heat the lard until boiling, then drop in the potato slices and stir until crisp.
Remove the chips and lay them on a sieve to drain.
Sprinkle a little coarse sea salt over them and serve 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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