Piquant Potatoes (Saope KaFtoffeln)

Ingredients

• 2 lbs. potatoes
• i tablespoonful flour
• lb. bacon
• Vinegar
• Sugar and salt to taste
• Sugar and salt to taste

Method

1. 1

   Boil potatoes in skins.

2. 2

   Cut bacon into dice and cook until fat melts.

3. 3

   Brown flour with a little sugar, add water to make a thick sauce.

4. 4

   Place thick potato slices in sauce, bring to boil, and season with vinegar, salt, and sugar before serving.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from German cookery for the English kitchen (1906) by Ella Oswald, page 58. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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I tablespoonful parsley, t. Peel the potatoes and cut up into pieces lengthwise. Parboil in water with salt, then drain off and finish boiling in the stock. Melt the butter and stew the tomatoes and onions in it. Rub through a sieve and add to the potatoes. On serving, sprinkle over with parsley. Braone Petersilienkartoffehi. (Potatoes, Browned, with Parsley.) For 6 Persons. Time of Preparation : i\ hour. 2 lbs. potatoes. I oz. butter, f pint cream. A pinch of pepper. I tablespoonful flour. I ,, chopped parsley. \ teaspoonful Meat Extract. Peel and slice the potatoes. Boil them and then drain well. Stir the Meat Extract, flour and pepper into the cream and pour over the potatoes. Add the butter and some salt and boil for 3 minutes. Vegetables. 135 Stir in the chopped parsley and serve with cutlets, chops, rissoles, etc. Kartoffeln mit Tomatensauce. (Potatoes with Tomato Sauce.) For 6 Persons. Time of Preparation : \\ hour. i^ lb. potatoes. 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Butter a china mould and place in the bottom of it a layer of sliced boiled potatoes, then a layer of herring, cut into dice after having been soaked, then again po- tatoes, and continue the alternate layers till the mould be full, the top layer being potatoes. Pour over this the yolks and the cream well beaten to- gether, place the butter in lumps on the top, sprinkle the f rated Parmesan cheese over it, and bake 30 minutes. lices of pickled cucumber may be added in the layers of potatoes. Saope KaFtoffeln. (Piquant Potatoes.) For 6 Persons. Time of Preparation : \\ hour. 2 lbs. potatoes. i tablespoonful flour. \ lb. bacon

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