Name: Potato Chips
Ingredients: raw potatoes; coarse sea salt; deep frying fat

Potato Chips

Ingredients

raw potatoes
coarse sea salt
deep frying fat

Directions

Slice raw potatoes into thin slices using a potato slicer.
Soak the slices in cold water for 1 hour.
Dry the slices between towels.
Fry the slices in deep fat until golden.
Drain on soft paper and sprinkle with coarse sea salt.
For fancy shapes, cut raw potatoes into hearts or crescents using cookie cutters after slicing.

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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