Boiled Sweet Potatoes
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Scrub the sweet potatoes with a brush.
Boil
Place them in boiling salted water to cover.
Cook for 25 minutes or until tender.
Peel and serve
Drain and remove the skins.
Serve in a folded napkin.
Do not let them sit in the cooking kettle without covering them with a tea towel and then the lid.
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
- Sweet potatoes
- Their starch softens as they cook, giving a tender, moist, sweet flesh.
The step that matters
Covering the potatoes after cooking. Potatoes left uncovered lose moisture and cool unevenly. Covering them with a towel and lid holds in steam and heat, keeping the flesh soft and warm until serving.
“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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