Potato-Pear Pancakes

In my family, we made potato pancakes from leftover mashed potatoes and fried them in lard or butter to make them crisp. I never heard of pancakes made of raw grated potato and flavored with grated onion until I came East and encountered the world of German-Jewish cuisine and of potato latkes for Hanukah. In exploring German cooking, I have learned how often raw potatoes were combined with raw apples, since both kept well through the winter. But only from Lizzie Kander did I learn the possi