This section is from the book "Cooking For Profit", by Jessup Whitehead. Also available from Amazon: Cooking for Profit.
This is the name the restaurant keepers have given to the family style of cooking potatoes. Boil potatoes with their jackets on then peel and cut in thick slices into a large frying pan. Put in drippings, or butter, or the fat from fried pork enough only to well grease the pan; let the potatoes have plenty of time to brown on one side then shake them over till they are nicely colored all through. Sprinkle with salt.
 
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