Fried Potatoes

Ingredients

• Potatoes [a sufficient quantity for the meal]
• Fine salt
• Salted Water
• Lard

Directions

1. Heat up lard in a vessel.
2. Wash and pare the potatoes.
3. Cut the potatoes in thin slices.
4. Put the potatoes into salted water to cool and crisp.
5. Take the potatoes individually out of the water and dry them off.
6. Drop enough potatoes [enough to float] into the boiling lard.
7. Dip the potatoes out as they begin to brown with a skimmer.
8. Salt the potatoes once out of the vessel.

Source — La Cuisine Creole
Prepared by Rachel Brown
Louisiana Anthology
January 16, 2020