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Fried Potatoes

4 servings

Ingredients

• potatoes (as needed)
• butter, cooking fat or bacon (a little)
• onion (a little)
• salt (a little)

Instructions

1. Fried potatoes turn out best when made from freshly boiled jacket potatoes, kept hot until frying; however, leftover boiled or jacket potatoes can also be used.
2. Slice the potatoes and fry them in a shallow pan with pure butter, cooking fat, or bacon.
3. If desired, fry sliced onions briefly before adding the potatoes.
4. Sprinkle the potatoes with salt and roast them until light brown, shaking and stirring carefully to prevent burning.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.