Dear Timmy:
There is salt in the recipe but I'm not sure why there is no pepper. And sour cream or applesauce served with potato pancakes is so automatic, I didn't even think to put it in the recipe! THANKS
I'm so happy to know you enjoyed them; and next time I make them, I'm going to add a dash of hot sauce too! It is also possible that blandness is inversely proportional to how hungry one is! I read during the Great Depression of the 1930's a man wrote there was so little food in his house that he rinsed out an empty catsup bottle with hot water and called it tomato soup!