Nana's Latkes
- 2 pounds Idaho potatoes
- 2 pounds Yukon new potatoes
- 5 eggs, beaten
- 1 cup flour
- Salt
- Vegetable oil for frying
- Sour Cream
- Apple sauce
- Peel potatoes, and keep in cold water until you are ready to grate them.
- Grate the potatoes coarsely by hand (or with a Cuisinart using first the shredding blade then the blending blade).
- The mixture should be slightly lumpy and not too blended.
- Add the beaten eggs.
- Mix in up to 1 cup of flour.
- Add a little salt.
- The batter should be fairly liquid and not too thick.
- Heat about a half-inch of vegetable oil in a frying pan.
- When the oil is very hot, use a soupspoon as a measure to put small amounts of the batter in the oil.
- Fry the pancakes on one side, then the other, until they have turned brown on both sides and are crispy around the edges.
- Drain the pancakes on paper towels that have been placed on a platter atop a saucepan of simmering hot water or keep warm in the oven.
potatoes, potatoes, eggs, flour, salt, vegetable oil, sour cream, apple sauce
Taken from cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/10095 (may not work)