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( Potatoes With Apples )
Himmel Und Erde
( Potatoes With Apples )
Ingredients
2½ teaspoons sugar
1½ teaspoons salt
½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
¾ pint cold water
9 medium-sized boiling potatoes (about 3 lb), peeled and cut into 1 inch cubes
1 lb tart cooking apples, peeled, cored and quartered
½ lb lean bacon, cut into ¼ inch dice
2 medium-sized onions, peeled and sliced ⅛ inch thick and separated into rings
1 teaspoon cider vinegar
Details
Serves: 8
Method
Put the sugar, 1 teaspoon of the salt and the black pepper into ¾ pint of water in a large, heavy pan. Then drop in the potatoes and apples and bring the water to the boil over a high heat. Reduce the heat to moderate and cover the pan tightly. Simmer, undisturbed, until the potatoes are tender but not falling apart.
Meanwhile cook the bacon over a moderate heat in a medium-sized frying pan until brown and crisp. Spread it out with a perforated spoon on a double thickness of kitchen paper to drain. Add the onions to the fat remaining in the frying pan and cook over a moderate heat, stirring frequently, for about 8 to 10 minutes, until the rings are soft and light brown.
Just before serving, stir the remaining teaspoon of salt and the teaspoon of vinegar into the potatoes and apples, and taste for seasoning. Then transfer the entire contents of the frying pan to a heated bowl and serve topped with the onion rings and bacon.
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