How to Make Texas Potato Pancakes

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Morgan Bolling makes Texas Potato Pancakes.

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  4. McDonald's hash browns are NOT potato pancakes. My family has been making them for many generations. You do NOT wring out the juice from the potatoes, It helps the pancakes stick together. Recipe: Two medium potatoes to one medium onion. Both grated. One egg. One tablespoon flour or potato starch, salt & pepper. Pancakes are only sauteed in about an inch of oil, and are NOT deep fried.

  14. I’ve been going to Wurstfest in New Braunfels almost every Fall since I was 17. I am 59 now. I can vouch that this is the real recipe and they are DELICIOUS! At Wurstfest, which is an almost 100-year old celebration, the line for the booth that sells the Kartoffelpuffers always has the longest lines of any of the other food booths. I missed last year’s Wurstfest, but watching this video has spurred me to definitely go this year. A bad fire at the main food pavilion in 2019 in addition to Covid restrictions the following years has meant no visits to Wurstfest. After seeing this video, I’m definitely going back this year. Thanks for sharing!

  18. Grew up eating and making latkes like this. I make them now but I grate in some onion, flour, egg, salt, pepper, and either Dill or Italian seasoning. Sweet potatoes also make great potato pancakes when topped with sour cream.

  23. You can make them using grated apples too instead of potatoes. Use the same method & squeeze out moisture from apples. Sprinkle them with cinnamon & sugar when cooked. I had a German boyfriend who was a chef who taught me that. They are called appfelpuffre – I think that's how you spell it.

  27. This is one of the things that baffles me: when people call something “texas” whatever. I have been trapped here, for most of my life, and I have never heard of “texas potato pancakes.” Never. There are people here, who make and eat latkes, but it is uncommon outside of those specific groups. My people have been here for 176 years, and my mother’s people are Polish. Outside of a Jewish deli, or a Jewish home, I have never, ever heard of Texans eating potato pancakes. Never.

  30. Texan here but I think credit needs to go to Germany for this wonderful food. There's a famous restaurant in Florida that makes these and if you ask for ketchup you'll be thrown out of the restaurant…which is why they're famous..;-)

  35. Use a potato ricer for extracting the water out of the grated potatoes. It won't break the strings and will remove far more water than squeezing them inside a kitchen towel. It's great for cooked spinach as well.

  36. She lets the frying pan handle hang out over the stove so she has to walk around it. So dangerous. A pan handle should be turned in toward the counter while you work. If she'd bumped it then grease would've gone all over. I make it a habit to keep the handle over the counter rather than in the aisle way so that I never have to worry about bumping it or worse yet having a small child grab it. I expect better from America's Test Kitchen. This would be like a car show host driving and texting at the same time.

  38. This is not a Texas thing. It is a German thing. I’m born and raised in DFW, but my parents now live in New Braunfels. Wurstfest is a huge deal, but it’s meant to specifically celebrate all things German. These are very similar to Latkes though. Fantastic food! I always get one of these at Wurstfest each year!

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