This potato and egg pie was a hit in our February 1979 issue, and is one of our favorites today:
This was a big miss for us. My wife made it for a Mother's Day brunch for her mother today. She followed this recipe exactly, with the side exception of adding more salt. As we didn't have any creme fraiche around, she used sour cream, per the recipe.The pie crusts turned out great. She often struggles with pie crusts, but was really pleased with this. The pie looked delicious and the crust was really good.This whole recipe just tasted kind of"off".
After writing the previous note about the inconsistency in the layering instructions in the text vs the video I decided to google again for the recipe. And, I found another from Food & Wine, that would appear to be the same dish, but after reading it I realize it is the one I used all those years ago. That recipe uses the same layer order as the video here. It also calls for 5 hard boiled eggs, and for creme fraiche or heavy cream -- not sour cream.