Dan,

Thanks for your input - I'm happy with my family recipe, just looking for a different binder. Potato Buds? I've never used that before, something about dried mashed potatoes just turns me off. But I've heard good things about using it in cooking. I'm curious why one would use that instead of potato starch, is the texture different? Is it more gooey/binding?

I've never heard of an Acme tool, that sounds interesting - Because I have a disability I have in recent years used the grating attachment on my food processor (and then of course squeezed the potatoes out by hand). Previous to that I would use a hand grater. I have to take a lot of shortcuts now, so my food processor is my friend!

Garlic powder in latkes - Wow, hat is somethign I've never heard of before! I don't think I could bring myself to put that in my family recipe (I'm a family recipe purist) but I'm thinking of making some "nouveau" latkes such as parsnip or zucchini latkes and I bet garlic would go great in those... mmm.

Isaiah

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