Fried Sweet Potatoes
Ingredients
Directions
Peel and slice the sweet potatoes like bread.
Fry them in a small amount of lard to prevent burning.
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
- Sweet potatoes
- Form the main body of the dish, cooking into tender slices with a golden exterior.
- Lard
- Conducts heat and adds fat, helping the slices brown and reducing the risk of scorching.
The step that matters
Frying in a small amount of lard. Too little fat or too high a heat lets the sugars in the sweet potato scorch before the interior softens. Frying in a modest, even layer of lard at moderate heat browns the surface while the slices cook through.
“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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