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French Fried Potatoes

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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French Fried Potatoes

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Slice the potatoes thinly or cut them into blocks or rhomboidal shapes.

  2. Soak the pieces in cold water for one hour.

  3. Heat lard in a frying pan until very hot.

  4. Dry the potato slices quickly on a towel.

  5. Drop the slices into the hot lard and fry until done.

  6. Remove with a skimmer and place in a colander set on a tin plate in the oven to keep warm.

  7. Once all potatoes are fried, sprinkle with coarse sea salt and serve immediately.

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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