Applesauce OR sour cream?!

[Shot From Guns]

Applesauce and sour cream, you fucking infidel.

[mlerose]

Applesauce AND sour cream is the only acceptable choice here.

[Fenris]

Mixed together? Sour Applesauce Cream? Eeew.

No--it's "If you HAD to only chose one or your grandma would shoot you before you got the first bite in your mouth, which would you pick?"

[Veb]

There is another option here, and it's the correct one: either.

Yes, both are excellent and have unique qualities that play off the basic yumminess of latkes. However, they should not be mixed. Actually I'm a purist about maintaining condiment purity per latke. Sour cream and applesauce should never meet on an individual latke. Nope, not even on a bite-by-bite basis.

Coincidentally, this bauhaus approach provides a wonderful excuse to eat more of them.

[Fenris]

Despite your communist attachment to cobblers over crisps, in this, you are my soul-sister.

[Shot From Guns]

Originally Posted by mlerose

Applesauce AND sour cream is the only acceptable choice here.

Yes. You will survive the purge in the coming revolution.

Originally Posted by Fenris

Mixed together?

No, of course not mixed together. That's gross, and you're stupid.

First you smear on a layer of sour cream. Then you spoon on the applesauce. THEN YOU CRAM IT IN YOUR MOUTH AND NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM.

[Fenris]

ON THE SAME LATKE?

Heathen. We will melt you down and use you in our menorahs for your heresy.

EITHER Sour Cream or Applesauce goes on any given latke. Thus has it been and thus it shall always be.

[mlerose]

Hey, at least she didn't put ketchup as an option in the poll.

[Borborygmi]

Latkes are some sort of holy Jewish hash browns, right? Why would anyone put applesauce on that? I went with neither. I probably should have gone with I don't eat this food but I'm sure I've had latkes at some point in my life and I'm sure I'll have them again at some point, because I do not turn down opportunities to eat fried food.

[Shot From Guns]

Originally Posted by Fenris

ON THE SAME LATKE?

YES. Trust me on this: I had exactly the same reaction until I tried it.

Originally Posted by Borborygmi

Latkes are some sort of holy Jewish hash browns, right?

There's a bit more to it than that--potato pancakes, pretty much. Which is why I also included that option for us goyim.

[Fenris]

Originally Posted by Borborygmi

Latkes are some sort of holy Jewish hash browns, right?

Ever had Arby's potato cakes?

They're....kinda....like that but usually with a bit of onion mixed into the potato and a lot less salt.

[Fish]

I dunno, apple pie goes with ice cream; sour cream would be really good on æbleskiver; I could see them together.

[Veb]

Ahem.

I'm not proud of this, mind, but actually I've quite enjoyed a schmear of sour cream on a latke with a few artistic dribbles of Tabasco. If one absolutely must gunk something with the sour cream, that is.

It's...a fusion approach, that's the ticket.

[Khampelf]

Sour cream all the way, applesauce is baby food.

Maybe, maybe applesauce on pork chops, once a year, but that's it.

[Solfy]

I like my latkes naked, or maybe with a little butter. I would probably use sour cream if I ever had any in the house.

[NAF1138]

Originally Posted by Shot From Guns

Applesauce and sour cream, you fucking infidel.

Originally Posted by mlerose

Applesauce AND sour cream is the only acceptable choice here.

Originally Posted by Fish

I dunno, apple pie goes with ice cream; sour cream would be really good on æbleskiver; I could see them together.

Originally Posted by Solfy

I like my latkes naked, or maybe with a little butter. I would probably use sour cream if I ever had any in the house.

You are all dead to me. And to think I used to like some of you. Well, Solfy is ok I guess, but butter on a latke is just too much fat on top of fat even for me.

Clearly applesauce is the right choice because sour cream is vile. But if you like that sort of thing, it's acceptable to use sour cream by itself. People who mix...:eew:

Originally Posted by Borborygmi

Latkes are some sort of holy Jewish hash browns, right? Why would anyone put applesauce on that? I went with neither.

GAHHH!

[ulfhjorr]

Originally Posted by Khampelf

Sour cream all the way, applesauce is baby food.

Maybe, maybe applesauce on pork chops, once a year, but that's it.

Got it. Latkes with sour cream and pork chops with applesauce. I think I've got my next Hanukkah dinner.

[Panacea]

Originally Posted by Khampelf

Sour cream all the way, applesauce is baby food.

Maybe, maybe applesauce on pork chops, once a year, but that's it.

My niece always asks "where's the applesauce" when I make pork chops. I don't know what in the dickens she's talking about. It's like she's been raised by wolves or something.

I've never had the pleasure of eating a latke. But I suspect that I would choose sour cream and not applesauce. Ick.

[NAF1138]

Oh, for those of you who have not had latkes, do you have Trader Joes near by? I just got a box of their frozen latkes and they are very good. Not as good as home made, but very good.

[Khampelf]

Originally Posted by ulfhjorr

Got it. Latkes with sour cream and pork chops with applesauce. I think I've got my next Hanukkah dinner.

Don't forget the bacon cheeseburgers.

[NAF1138]

Originally Posted by Khampelf

Don't forget the bacon cheeseburgers.

And lobster bisque.

[jali]

I made latkes in Home Ec. at St. Francis Prep - this makes me an expert on this food.

Applesauce and sour cream - alternating bites.

[NAF1138]

Originally Posted by jali

I made latkes in Home Ec. at St. Francis Prep - this makes me an expert on this food.

Applesauce and sour cream - alternating bites.

Not mixed on the same bite though? It's an important distinction.

[jali]

Originally Posted by NAF1138

Not mixed on the same bite though? It's an important distinction.

Never in the same bite. Each bite makes you want the other condiment. It only gets tough at the end. Finish with SC or AS. So hard to choose.

[welby]

There is no applesauce for the latkes. Ever.








EVER.

[Parthenokinesis]

I chose sour cream, but I have also found they go great with cheese curds and beef in gravy. You applesauce people will come to find that you are abhorrent in the eyes of your god. It eliminates the whole point of keeping Kosher.

[prr]

Zat in Brooklyn Heights, Jali? That's where I cooked my last batch of latkes, on Hicks Street.

[Panacea]

Originally Posted by NAF1138

Oh, for those of you who have not had latkes, do you have Trader Joes near by?

The nearest one is in Nashville, 317 miles away.

[Shot From Guns]

Originally Posted by NAF1138

Clearly applesauce is the right choice because sour cream is vile.

Sometimes, when I have sour cream on hand, I'll stop in the kitchen, grab a spoon, open the fridge, and just eat a fucking spoonful of sour cream. Right there. Mmmmmmn.

Originally Posted by Parthenokinesis

It eliminates the whole point of keeping Kosher.

Fortunately, not only am I an atheist, but I'm not even ethnically Jewish, for a total of two Get Out of Kosher Free cards.

[NAF1138]

Originally Posted by NinetyWt

The nearest one is in Nashville, 317 miles away.

I am so sorry for you.

Originally Posted by Shot From Guns

Sometimes, when I have sour cream on hand, I'll stop in the kitchen, grab a spoon, open the fridge, and just eat a fucking spoonful of sour cream. Right there. Mmmmmmn.

This is right up there with mayo sandwiches and the single most vile thing I have ever heard. If you weren't already dead to me, you would be dead to me! :shudder:

[whirlingbladesofkick]

Oh sour cream. Hot fried potatoes, onion, salt, sour cream. Srsly.

[Fenris]

Originally Posted by NinetyWt

The nearest one is in Nashville, 317 miles away.

An Arby's potato cake is....kinda close as are tater-tots.

They're not exactly right, but they're in the ballpark.

[Shot From Guns]

Originally Posted by NAF1138

This is right up there with mayo sandwiches and the single most vile thing I have ever heard.

Mayo sandwiches are gross. Ketchup sandwiches, on the other hand...

Originally Posted by Fenris

An Arby's potato cake is....kinda close as are tater-tots.

These all sound like variants on hash browns to me, which are just fried shredded potatoes. Latkes and potato pancakes both include some kind of binding (eggs, flour, matzo meal) and onions before they're formed into patties and fried.




One of my friends just sent me her latke recipe yesterday since we were talking about them last night. I suppose it's only fair to share!

this makes enough for like 12 jews or like 40 regular people. i dont know, it makes a ton.
15 big russet potatoes or yukon gold. (i mix them )
3 large brown onions
6 eggs
1 cup matzo meal (or flour, i guess thats the only difference..)
3 tbl kosher salt
1 ½ tbl white pepper
(sometimes my mom chops up green onions and adds them, its pretty tasty, but i don't know how many)

1.) Peel potatoes and place in cold water to retain color
2.) Grate onions and potatoes in batches, squeezing out and draining excess water as you go, but don’t take out the water from the last batch
3.) Add the eggs, mix
4.)Add flour, salt and pepper and mix well
5.)To cook the latkes, drop large spoonfuls into a pan of very hot oil. Using the spoon, quickly and gently press the potato mixture to make it flat, Turn once, cooking until both sides are golden brown.

[NAF1138]

Originally Posted by Shot From Guns

Mayo sandwiches are gross. Ketchup sandwiches, on the other hand...

The HORROR! :faint:


Actually, the real reason I wanted to post was to give approval to your friend's recipe. It looks a lot like what my mom would make, only she would chop in one medium yellow onion for every 4 potatoes and only used Russet.

I don't know why, but I can't get the hang of making them myself. Mine never turn out...edible. But I recommend that others who have not had them give it a shot. They are uber-tasty.

[The Futility of Nihilism]

Oh man I just went over to Central Market for lunch and I was going to buy a latke or two just because of this thread but then I forgot.

[Fenris]

Originally Posted by Shot From Guns

[
These all sound like variants on hash browns to me, which are just fried shredded potatoes. Latkes and potato pancakes both include some kind of binding (eggs, flour, matzo meal) and onions before they're formed into patties and fried.

Correct, but potato pancakes tend to be flatter and...chewier....while (again, in my experience) latkes tend to be fluffier (the egg, maybe?) more like tater-tots or Arby's potato cakes than say...Denny's hash browns.


[quote]
[QUOTE]this makes enough for like 12 jews or like 40 regular people. i dont know, it makes a ton.
15 big russet potatoes or yukon gold. (i mix them )
3 large brown onions
6 eggs
1 cup matzo meal (or flour, i guess thats the only difference..)
3 tbl kosher salt
1 ½ tbl white pepper
(sometimes my mom chops up green onions and adds them, its pretty tasty, but i don't know how many)[/quote
This is pretty close to mine...subtract an egg, add a bunch of chives/chopped (if you can get 'em) or green onions if you can't and substitute one apple for one of the onions. (and "yellow" onions, not brown(?))

Also, I agree that a mix of yukon golds/russets is better than either on it's own.

Finally, if you can get it cheaply, grapeseed oil or a mix of grapeseed/generic cooking oil is fantastic for these.

[Shot From Guns]

Originally Posted by Fenris

Correct, but potato pancakes tend to be flatter and...chewier....while (again, in my experience) latkes tend to be fluffier (the egg, maybe?) more like tater-tots or Arby's potato cakes than say...Denny's hash browns.

Not familiar with Arby's potato cakes, so I can't comment on those. But I'll say that my experience agrees with yours as to potato pancakes vs. latkes. I also feel like the potatoes are grated finer for latkes, which may contribute to the distinction. Besides that, I get the feeling that latkes use more eggs, and substituting matzo meal for flour may also have something to do with it.

[NAF1138]

Originally Posted by Shot From Guns

Besides that, I get the feeling that latkes use more eggs, and substituting matzo meal for flour may also have something to do with it.

Matzo meal instead of flour, I think, makes a huge difference in the final texture of the latke. I don't know about the amount of eggs used.

[Hockey Monkey]

I like them with ketchup.





:flees from the thread:

[Fenris]

Originally Posted by Shot From Guns

Not familiar with Arby's potato cakes, so I can't comment on those. But I'll say that my experience agrees with yours as to potato pancakes vs. latkes. I also feel like the potatoes are grated finer for latkes, which may contribute to the distinction. Besides that, I get the feeling that latkes use more eggs, and substituting matzo meal for flour may also have something to do with it.

Matzo meal makes a huge difference. Flour (IMO) is waaaaaay too starchy and dense.

[LurkMeister]

Originally Posted by NAF1138

Oh, for those of you who have not had latkes, do you have Trader Joes near by? I just got a box of their frozen latkes and they are very good. Not as good as home made, but very good.

Hmmm...something else I'll need to check out the next time I go to Trader Joes.

I voted for both because either was not on the poll. I've never had both on the same latke, primarily because when I have latkes I seldom have both applesauce and sour cream available.

[jali]

Originally Posted by prr

Zat in Brooklyn Heights, Jali? That's where I cooked my last batch of latkes, on Hicks Street.

No. I attended SFP after they moved to Queens. (on Francis Lewis Blvd and the LIE service road)

SFP bought Bishop Reilly High School and accepted some of us.