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Potato Latkes
This favorite is always a crowd pleaser during Chanukah, the Jewish Festival of Lights.
Oil was burned in the original menorahs and now plays an important symbolic role
in many
fried foods.
2 medium potatoes
1 egg(beaten)
1/4 cup flour
vegetable oil
Peel and coarsely grate the potatoes.
Mix with the beaten egg and flour.
Drop teaspoon size pancakes into hot vegetable oil.
Brown on both sides.
Serve with applesauce.
Makes 10-12 small latkes.
- above recipe originally published in the Holiday 1993 issue of ZuZu