New Potatoes
Oven, in the book's wordsA hot oven
Ingredients
Directions
Rub the skins of the new potatoes with a coarse towel.
Boil gently in boiling water with salt for twenty minutes.
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.
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What each ingredient does
- New potatoes
- Form the main body of the dish, cooking into tender flesh under their thin skins.
“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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