Potato Pancakes of the Mountains

Name: Potato Pancakes of the Mountains (Le Farçon de Pommes de Terre)
Prep time: 1 h 30 min
Total time: 1 h 30 min
Yield: For 4 people
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: Heavy cream (up to 2 Tb); Potatoes (4 whole medium–to make about 1 quart of pulp); Scallions (4); Parsley (enough to fill 2 Tb, chopped); Garlic, rosemary leaves, Crystal salt, freshly ground black Tellicherry pepper; Garlic, rosemary leaves, Crystal salt, freshly ground black Tellicherry pepper; Garlic, rosemary leaves, Crystal salt, freshly ground black Tellicherry pepper; Garlic, rosemary leaves, Crystal salt, freshly ground black Tellicherry pepper; Butter (4 Tb); Eggs (3); Peanut oil (2 Tb)

Le Farçon de Pommes de Terre

Preparation info

For
4
people

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
1 hr 30

Appears in

The Auberge of the Flowering Hearth

By Roy Andries De Groot

Published 1973

About

Good at any time of the year. (See menu with wines.) Can be the potato accompaniment to a main dish, or the main part of a light Sunday night supper.

Ingredients

Staple Items

Butter (4 Tb)
Eggs (3)
Peanut oil (2

Europe
France
Supper
Gluten-free
Vegetarian
Breakfast
Mediterranean

Method

Bake the 4 potatoes in their skins in your favorite way. (At the Auberge and in my New York kitchen, the potatoes are baked in a handmade ceramic diable made of unglazed pottery, which takes about 2 hours, but draws the moisture out of the potatoes, so that they are wonderfully fluffy, with the flavor concentrated. Other methods of baking, with a metal spike for the potatoes to conduct t