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Potato Schalet

A historical recipe from The International Jewish Cook Book 1600 Recipes According to the Jewish Dietary Laws with the Rules for Kashering, by Florence Kreisler Greenbaum (1919).

A historical recipe

The International Jewish Cook Book 1600 Recipes According to the Jewish Dietary Laws with the Rules for Kashering; the Favorite Recipes of America, Austria, Germany, Russia, France, Poland, Roumania, Etc., Etc., by Florence Kreisler Greenbaum (1919). Project Gutenberg eBook #12350.

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Source and licence

From The International Jewish Cook Book 1600 Recipes According to the Jewish Dietary Laws with the Rules for Kashering, by Florence Kreisler Greenbaum (1919). Digitised by Project Gutenberg, eBook #12350 (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/12350). Public domain in the USA; its status may differ elsewhere.

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Ingredients

Method

  1. Peel and grate five or six large potatoes and one onion.
  2. Soak some bread and two or three crackers.
  3. Press out the water and add to the potatoes and onion, salt to taste.
  4. Add two tablespoons of boiling fat and one beaten egg.
  5. Have plenty of hot fat in pan, put in the pudding, pour over it one cup of cold water.
  6. Bake in hot oven one hour.
  7. Two slices of white bread, one inch thick, will be sufficient bread for this schalet.