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Potato Soup with Bacon

4 servings

Ingredients

• 1 kg potatoes
• salted water (as needed)
• 1.5 l water (boiling)
• salt (a little)
• 100 g fatty bacon, diced
• parsley, finely chopped (a little)

Instructions

1. Peel 1 kg of potatoes, wash them, boil them in salted water until tender, drain, and let them steam dry in an open pot, shaking occasionally.
2. Mash them with a ladle and pass them through a colander or food mill.
3. Add 1½ l of boiling water, salt, and then add the diced, light yellow fried bacon and finely chopped parsley.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.