I can only imagine that my friend Amy, who gave me her Bubbe's recipe for latkes when I expressed a wish to try my hand at them, would be more horrified by my decidedly non-kosher practice of frying them in bacon fat than she was when I told her I used flour in place of matzoh meal to tie them all together. She also was somewhat nonplussed when I told her I preferred apple butter to applesauce with them. I didn't even get into the fact that my very favorite topping for a crispy, crunchy latke with a soft, creamy inside is an over easy egg. Also fried in bacon fat. - Kayb

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