Friday - December 11, 2009

First Night, One Light

Just for fun, here is the latke song.

There are millions of recipes for latkes, also known as potato pancakes. I love them. But the best ones ever are my mother’s. Of course! Take 2 large peeled Russet potatoes and run them over the wire grid grater and don’t throw out the juice. Beat in an egg. A splash of milk I think. Toss in a tight handful of chopped yellow onion, but not too much. Add some salt. Now add enough white flour to make a thin batter. That’s it. No garlic, no carrots, no schmaltz (but a little can’t hurt), no matzoh meal. Cook them up like pancakes in an iron skillet with a small amount of Crisco or olive oil. Not deep fried. They turn out soft and a little chewy, just like pancakes. Add salt, pepper, butter, and sour cream and they are divine. Try them with applesauce too. You have to make them in small, 2-4 potato batches because the grated potato starts to turn brown quickly. Maybe that’s entirely the wrong way to make them. I don’t care. The crispy ones I’ve had are hardly different from McDonald’s hash browns.

Hmm, it may be that she goes her own way in the kitchen. Her Yorkshire Pudding is a soft and chewy lightly browned souffle made with loads of meat juices, while most other yorkies are cooked until they’re as crisp as cookies. Bleh. Mom’s is better. [ hmm, her potato pancakes may actually be Swedish raggmunk. Like I said, millions of recipes out there. ]

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