Potato Snow
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Choose mealy white potatoes.
Boil the potatoes in their jackets until tender.
Dry and peel the potatoes.
Sprinkle with coarse sea salt.
Serve
Rub the potatoes through a colander or wire sieve into the serving dish.
Avoid disturbing the potatoes after sifting.
Serve hot.
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
- White potatoes
- Mealy starch breaks into fine, fluffy strands when pressed through a sieve, forming the snow-like texture.
The step that matters
Rub the potatoes through a colander or wire sieve into the serving dish.. Pressing cooked potato through a fine mesh breaks its cells into light, separate strands instead of a dense purée. Handling it gently keeps the snowy 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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