Potatoes
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Peel the potatoes and place them in a basin of cold water until ready to cook.
Cook and serve
Boil the potatoes in a large pot of water until tender.
Drain the water, shake the potatoes gently, and return them to the pot.
Serve the potatoes immediately.
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 body of the dish, which softens and becomes tender when boiled.
The step that matters
Drain and shake the potatoes. Shaking the drained potatoes in the pot helps excess surface moisture evaporate, so they stay dry rather than soggy when served.
“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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