Boiled Sweet Potatoes
Ingredients
Directions
Select sweet potatoes of uniform size.
Wash and peel the sweet potatoes.
Cook in boiling salted water for 20 minutes, ensuring the water covers the potatoes.
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
- Sweet potatoes
- Form the main body of the dish, becoming soft and tender as they cook through.
The step that matters
Cook in boiling salted water for 20 minutes, ensuring the water covers the potatoes.. Potatoes must stay fully submerged so they cook evenly; any exposed part overheats or stays firm. Uniform sizing helps all pieces reach tenderness at the same time.
“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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