Baked Potatoes
Ingredients
Directions
The book gives no oven temperature. The 400°F (200°C) in the steps was added when the recipe was transcribed, as a starting point.
Prepare
Wash the potatoes and dry them.
Cut a small piece off the pointed end of each potato.
Bake
Place the potatoes in the oven, ensuring they do not touch each other.
Bake at 400°F (200°C) for 25 to 30 minutes, turning each potato frequently.
If baking with meat, pare the potatoes and place them in the baking pan around the meat.
Lightly sprinkle with coarse sea salt and baste them when the meat is basted.
Serve
Serve with the meat or separately.
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
- Provide the starchy flesh that becomes fluffy when baked, with the skin crisping as it dries.
The step that matters
Turning the potatoes frequently. Turning exposes every side to the dry oven heat so the skin dries and cooks evenly. Potatoes left touching each other trap moisture and steam, which softens the skin instead of crisping it.
“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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