Required: Large potatoes. Frying fat.

Wash and peel the potatoes. For making these waffles, the special cutter shown in illustration is required. Such a cutter costs is. 6d. (see page 773). Hold the cutter firmly in the left hand, pressing it down on the table. Take the potato in the right hand, and follow "the instructions given with each cutter. Do not be disappointed if the first results are not like the illustration, for practice alone will make perfect. As each potato is sliced put in cold water.

Have ready a pan of frying fat, dry the potatoes well in a clean cloth.

When a bluish smoke rises from the frying fat, put in the slices a few at a time, and fry them a delicate golden brown. Drain them well on paper. If they do not seem to be crisp, put them back in the fat for a few minutes.