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French Fried Potatoes

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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French Fried Potatoes

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Peel the potatoes and soak them in cold water for at least one hour.

  2. Cut the potatoes into slices, blocks, strips, balls, or any desired shape, then dry them on a towel.

  3. Heat the fat until hot enough to brown the potatoes quickly.

  4. Fry the potatoes until they float to the surface, indicating they are done.

  5. Remove the potatoes with a draining basket and keep them warm in the oven.

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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