Boiled Potatoes
Ingredients
Directions
Boil enough salted water to cover the potatoes.
Add the new potatoes with their jackets and boil for about 20 minutes until tender.
Drain the water and let the potatoes sit on the back of the stove to dry, shaking the pan occasionally.
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
- Provide the starchy flesh that becomes tender and fluffy when cooked in water.
The step that matters
Letting the potatoes dry after draining. Surface moisture left on the potatoes dilutes their flavour and makes them soggy. Shaking the pan and resting them over residual heat lets steam escape, so the skins and surfaces dry out.
“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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