So-easy potato pancakes by grandma val
Pancakes
American cuisine
Grandma Val was my father's mother and Jewish by marriage. Her specialties were brisket, sponge cake, and anything involving a potato or cabbage (think coleslaw). She was born in 1917 and raised (with her two sisters), by a single and very tough Polish mother (who brewed bathtub gin by day and turned their house into a speakeasy at night...Grandma and her younger sister slept with the full jugs when their house was raided), who no doubt made potato pancakes for them. I don't know where this recipe comes from (perhaps her sister-in-law Edna), but Grandma Val made them frequently and served them with their natural counterparts, applesauce and/or sour cream. Grandma used regular Idaho potatoes (she shopped religiously in King Kullen). I also recall her frying them in schmaltz (chicken fat). This made them EXTRA crispy and like two dishes (mashed potatoes and fried chicken) in one. - testkitchenette
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