Roasted Potatoes
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Wash the potatoes thoroughly and dry them with a cloth.
Wrap each potato in tissue paper.
Roast
Bury the wrapped potatoes in ashes that are not too hot.
Cover the potatoes with coals and roast until tender.
Renew the coals occasionally if needed.
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
- Provide the starchy flesh that cooks until soft and tender under the ashes.
- Tissue paper
- Wraps each potato to shield its skin from direct contact with the ashes and coals.
The step that matters
Bury the wrapped potatoes in ashes that are not too hot. Ashes that are too hot can scorch the tissue paper and skin before the interior cooks through. Gentle, steady heat lets the potato cook evenly to a tender texture.
“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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