Tex's McDonalds French Fries 🍟

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Tex @cook_3903024
Manchester, England
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Ingredients

45 mins
1 serving
  1. 2large Idaho russet potatoes (or Maris Piper)
  2. ➖ Sugar Water ➖
  3. 1 1/2 cuphot water
  4. 1/4 cupsugar
  5. 2 tbspcorn syrup (replace with golden syrup in the UK)
  6. ➖ Frying ➖
  7. 6 cupCrisco (replace with groundnut or vegetable oil in the UK)
  8. 1/4 cupbeef lard (dripping) or fat from previously cooked burgers (optional)

Cooking Instructions

45 mins
  1. 1

    Peel the potatoes and chip thinly to 9mm or ⅜" thick and about 2½-3 inches long. Preferably, cut on a mandolin set to 9mm or ⅜“. If you don't have a mandolin, you can use a knife, but try to keep them all the same thickness, so that they cook uniformly

  2. 2

    Mix the ingredients for the sugar water in a bowl, making sure the sugar dissolves. Refrigerate the potatoes in the sugar water for 30 minutes

  3. 3

    While they soak, heat the oil to 190°C (375°F). Drain the chips in kitchen paper and put carefully in the fryer. Cook for 1 - 1½ minutes

  4. 4

    Put in a kitchen paper-lined bowl, and allow to cool in the fridge for 10 minutes. If you're adding beef lard to the fryer, do it now and bring the temperature back to 190°C (375 °F)

  5. 5

    Add the fries back to the fryer and cook until they float and are golden brown, then put back in the kitchen paper-lined bowl. Put on the plate

  6. 6

    Add ½ teaspoon of salt and shake well. Finally, eat and enjoy

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Tex
Tex @cook_3903024
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Manchester, England
I'm a designer/artist and I learned to cook when I started making my own Chinese food over 30 years ago. I'm a lover of my native British food, but recently I've developed a taste for American comfort food, especially sandwiches and BBQ (watching too much 'Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives' probably). 😸 Unfortunately, we don't have any independent US-style diners or drive-ins in my neck of the woods, so I had to learn from recipe books and the Food Network. I'll also be publishing some traditional UK classics in case any non-Brits want to have a crack at Brit grub.
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Comments (3)

Fili
Fili @cook_3314546
If I don't have any corn syrup, what can I use to substitute it?

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