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Latkes

Serve with cranberry sauce, applesauce, and/or sour cream.

Can fry in morning & leave on paper towels at room temperature, then reheat on a cookie sheet at 400 degrees or under a broiler.

1½ pounds of potato serves 4 people.

Ingredients	Step
2 onions	Grate on a box grater. Squeeze excess juices out over sink.
3 lb. boiling potatoes	Grate on a box grater. Rinse & squeeze excess juices out over sink.
oil	Start heating oil in a skillet.
6 T. flour 1 t. salt 3 eggs	Combine, then mix in onions and potato.
	Fry.

Source: Aaron's Aunt Leah

Goes well with Breton Beans, or with pierogi.

Ingredients	Step
10.5 oz. / 2 c. sauerkraut	Drain and finely chop.
¾ c. milk 1 egg 1 t. caraway 1 t. savory (opt.)	Mix wet ingredients together in a large bowl.
oil	Start heating oil in a skillet
1 c. (130 g.) flour	Add flour to the wet ingredients. Then add chopped sauerkraut.
	When a drop of batter sizzles in the hot oil, pour by 2T-fuls and spread to 3-inch rounds. Cook until the bottoms brown (about 5 minutes), then turn and repeat. Drain on paper towels. Serve hot.

Source: Michal Korkosz (Fresh from Poland)

Serves six as a condiment.

Ingredients	Step
2 c. cranberries ½ c. orange juice ¼ c. white sugar ¼ c. brown sugar ¼ t. cloves ¼ t. ginger	Combine in a saucepan. Simmer, stirring (uncovered), until berries have burst.

Source: Rebecca from New Orleans from college

It's nice to bake one extra potato so they can be extra-stuffed, and as insurance against breaking one of the shells.

Ingredients	Step
	Preheat oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit.
4 baking potatoes, scrubbed	Bake until tender -- ideally in oven so the skins firm up, but microwave is fine too. If in microwave and they are normal sized, stab all over with a fork then microwave it for 5 minutes, flip, and 5 minutes more.
½ c. milk 1 t. Dijon ¾ c. cheddar, grated ½ t. salt ¼ t. pepper	Cut potatoes in half lengthwise. Scoop out the flesh. Mash it all together. Maybe whip until light & fluffy. Spoon into reserved skins.
¼ c. cheddar, grated	Sprinkle.
	Bake another 10 minutes at 400 degrees, to brown the tops.

source: my grandma

A higher quality Hershey's syrup equivalent. Best to use at room temperature.

Great in egg creams (couple tablespoons of syrup in a cup, milk to halfway, seltzer to finish it).

Ingredients	Step
3/4 c. white sugar 1/4 t. kosher salt 1/2 c. water	Combine in small saucepan. Bring to boil over medium heat, whisking.
1/2 c. unsweetened cocoa powder, preferably Dutch-processed	Add cocoa powder while whisking. Whisk until smooth.
1 oz. (3 T) unsweetened chocolate, chopped	Remove from heat. Add the chopped chocolate and whisk until melted.
1 t. vanilla	Whisk in.
	Transfer to jar. Refrigerate.

Source: Genevieve Ko (NYT)