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Potato Chips

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Potato Chips

Potato Chips

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Peel the potatoes and slice them thinly.

  2. Wash the slices in cold water, then drain and dry thoroughly.

  3. Heat the frying fat in a wire basket until very hot.

  4. Fry the potato slices until cooked, then remove and reheat the fat.

  5. Wait until blue vapor rises from the fat, then return the basket and fry until crisp and lightly browned.

  6. Drain well, sprinkle with salt, and serve.

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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