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Roast Potatoes

Roast potatoes are potatoes seasoned with coarse sea salt and baked until tender.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Roast 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

  1. Wash and dry the potatoes, ensuring they are as uniform in size as possible.

  2. Place the potatoes in a Dutch oven or on a baking sheet.

Roast

  1. Roast them gradually in the oven at 400°F (200°C) until tender.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

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
Form the entire dish; their starch softens into a tender interior as they roast.

The step that matters

Keep the potatoes uniform in size. Pieces of similar size reach tenderness at the same time, so small pieces do not overcook while large ones stay firm.

“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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