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Potato Pancakes or Reibekuchen with Yeast

6 servings

Ingredients

• 11 pcs large potatoes, raw grated
• 0.25 l Milk
• 125 g stale white bread
• 3 pcs small rusks
• 4 pcs Eggs
• 35 g Yeast
• 2 tbsp Cream
• Salt (a little)

Instructions

1. Grate the well-washed, peeled raw potatoes, cover with cold water, and press out in a cloth.
2. Heat milk, white bread, and rusk over the fire and stir.
3. Add potatoes, eggs, yeast, cream, and milk, and stir everything thoroughly.
4. Let the dough rise in a warm place until it has doubled in size.
5. Heat the fat until quite hot and bake the dough into small cakes, which are baked covered until turned.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.