Potatoes with Bacon
Ingredients
Directions
Cook the potatoes until tender, then peel and cut them into small pieces.
Fry the potato pieces in a pan until they are light brown.
Cut the cooked bacon into small pieces and mix it with the potatoes.
Fry for a short time longer and serve.
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
- Potatoes
- Form the bulk of the dish, with a starchy interior and browned surface when fried.
- Cooked bacon
- Adds savory, salty fat flavour that seasons the potatoes as they fry.
The step that matters
Frying the potato pieces until light brown. Potatoes need enough dry, hot contact in the pan to brown. Crowding or too little heat steams them soft and pale instead of crisp.
“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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