Boiled Potatoes
Ingredients
Directions
Place potatoes in a saucepan and cover with enough salted boiling water.
When the skins begin to break, pour off all the water.
Cover the potatoes with a coarse towel.
Return to the heat until thoroughly cooked and dry.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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What each ingredient does
- Potatoes
- Provides the starch that gives the cooked flesh its body and texture.
The step that matters
Drying the potatoes after boiling. Surface water left on the potatoes makes them soggy and watery. Returning them to the heat and covering them with a towel lets the moisture evaporate and absorb, leaving the potatoes dry and fluffy.
“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.
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