Fried Sliced Potatoes

Origin: Virginia Tidewater

Source: Mary Randolph, 1824

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Peel large potatos and slice them about a quarter of an inch thick, or cut them in shavings round and round, as you would peel a lemon.
  2. Dry them well in a clean cloth, and fry them in lard or dripping.
  3. Take care that your fat and frying-pan are quite clean.
  4. Put it on a quick fire and watch it; as soon as the lard boils and is still, put in the slices of potatos and keep moving them till they are crisp.
  5. Take them up and lay them to drain on a sieve.
  6. Send them up with very little salt sprinkled on them.

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