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French Fried Potatoes

Potatoes sliced, soaked in salt water, then fried until golden.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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French Fried Potatoes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Peel and cut the potatoes into long strips or thin slices.

  2. Soak the potato strips in salt water on ice for 30 minutes.

Fry

  1. Fry the potatoes in boiling oil until golden 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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What each ingredient does

Potatoes
Provide the starchy body that cooks into a fluffy interior inside a crisp outer crust.
Oil for frying
Conducts heat quickly and drives off surface moisture so the outside browns and crisps.

The step that matters

Soaking the potato strips. Soaking in cold salt water washes surface starch away, which keeps the fries from sticking together and helps them brown evenly and crisp rather than turning gummy.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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