Name: Sliced Potatoes with Bacon
Ingredients: 4 medium potatoes; 1 piece of bacon; 2 tablespoons lard; ¼ teaspoon salt

Sliced Potatoes with Bacon

Ingredients

4 medium potatoes
1 piece of bacon
2 tablespoons lard
¼ teaspoon salt

Directions

Prepare

Pare and slice the potatoes.

Fry and cook

Fry the bacon in lard until light yellow.
Add the potatoes and salt to the pan, frying for a few minutes without turning.
Cover and cook in a kettle for 1 hour.

Serve

Serve the potatoes with the fried side facing up.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Potatoes: Form the bulk of the dish and become tender while steaming under the cover.
Bacon: Adds savory flavor and fat to the pan as it renders and browns.
Lard: Conducts heat for frying and adds richness to the potatoes.

“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.