The Book of Household Management by Mrs. Beeton

1142. INGREDIENTS.--Potatoes, hot butter or clarified dripping, salt.

_Mode_.--Peel and cut the potatoes into thin slices, as nearly the same size as possible; make some butter or dripping quite hot in a frying-pan; put in the potatoes, and fry them on both sides of a nice brown. When they are crisp and done, take them up, place them on a cloth before the fire to drain the grease from them, and serve very hot, after sprinkling them with salt. These are delicious with rump-steak, and, in France, are frequently served thus as a breakfast dish. The remains of cold potatoes may also be sliced and fried by the above recipe, but the slices must be cut a little thicker. _Time_.--Sliced raw potatoes, 5 minutes; cooked potatoes, 5 minutes. _Average cost_, 4s. per bushel. _Sufficient_,--6 sliced potatoes for 3 persons. _Seasonable_ at any time. A GERMAN METHOD OF COOKING POTATOES.