Name: Saratoga Fried Potatoes
Ingredients: potatoes; cold water; alum (small piece); lard (for frying)

Saratoga Fried Potatoes

Ingredients

potatoes
cold water
alum (small piece)
lard (for frying)

Directions

Cut the potatoes into thin slices.
Soak the slices in cold water overnight with a small piece of alum to make them crisp.
Rinse the potatoes in cold water and dry them with a crash towel.
Fry the potatoes in boiling lard until light 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.