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Fried Potatoes Souffles

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Fried Potatoes Souffles

Oven, in the book's wordsA slow oven

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cut the potatoes into thin slices, lengthwise, ½ inch thick.

  2. Soak the slices in cold water, then dry them with a cloth.

  3. Heat the fat to just below frying point and cook the potatoes for 7 minutes.

  4. Remove the potatoes and let them cool.

  5. Heat the fat to frying point, then add the potatoes again.

  6. Fry until they inflate like small balloons and turn 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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