French Fried Sweet Potatoes
Ingredients
Directions
Cut the sweet potatoes in half, then into quarters, and then into eighths.
Plunge the pieces into hot fat and cook until soft.
Remove from the fat and let cool.
When ready to serve, plunge them back into hot fat for 1 minute until brown.
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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