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Cheap Potato Fritters

4 servings

Ingredients

• 1 kg raw potatoes, grated
• 2 pcs egg yolks
• salt (a little)
• 2 tbsp flour
• fat, for frying (as needed)

Instructions

1. Let the grated potatoes stand in cold water for 1 hour, then squeeze them through a cloth.
2. Stir the potato starch that has settled in the water back into the mixture.
3. Mix with egg yolks and salt, add the flour, and fry like Westphalian potato fritters.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.