Boiled Potatoes
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Wash the potatoes and remove any dark spots.
If making salad or browning, cook them in their skins.
Peel the potatoes thinly.
Rinse the potatoes in cold water.
Boil and drain
Transfer to boiling salted water and cook until tender, about 30 minutes.
Drain immediately.
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
- Provide the starchy body of the dish; cooking softens their starch until tender.
The step that matters
Cook until tender, then drain immediately. Potatoes keep cooking from residual heat, so leaving them in the water can make them overly soft and waterlogged. Draining promptly keeps their texture firm and dry.
“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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