Rosti (Swiss-Style Potato Cake)

Directions

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   1 3/4 lb Potatoes (see below) 3 oz Butter, lard or bacon fat 1 1/2 tb Water or milk This is a favorite dish of German-speaking Switzerland

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   Besides being served as a side dish with meat or fish, it is sometimes eaten on its own, for lunch or even breakfast, with milky coffee

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   The potatoes should be boiled in their jackets the day before

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   These should be waxy potatoes of the potato-salad kind

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   The next day, peel them and grate them on the coarsest blade of the grater

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   Heat a large heavy frying pan, and let the fat get hot: then put in the potatoes, sprinkle with salt, and fry, turning them constantly

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   When they have soaked up the butter or whatever, add more

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   Now form a "cake" by pushing the potatoes from the edges of the pan into the middle and flattening down the top