Boiled Potatoes
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Wash the potatoes well with plenty of water.
Soak the potatoes in cold salted water for 1 hour before cooking.
Boil and serve
Place the potatoes in a pot of well-salted boiling water.
Boil the potatoes until tender enough to pierce with a fork.
Drain the potatoes.
Shake the potatoes in the saucepan for 1 minute with 1 teaspoon of salt.
Serve the potatoes in their jackets.
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 main body of the dish, cooking to a soft, starchy interior as they boil.
The step that matters
Boil until tender enough to pierce with a fork. Potatoes cook through unevenly if pieces differ in size, and undercooked centres stay firm and chalky. Testing with a fork confirms the starch has gelatinised all the way through.
“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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