New Potatoes
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Wash the potatoes in cold water and scrape them with a knife.
Boil a saucepan of warm water.
Cook
Once boiling, add the new potatoes and sprinkle with salt.
Boil for 15 minutes or until tender.
Drain the water and cover the saucepan to let the potatoes dry.
Serve
Serve the potatoes on a hot vegetable dish.
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
- New potatoes
- Starchy flesh becomes soft and fluffy when boiled until tender.
The step that matters
Boil until tender, then drain and dry. Overboiling makes potatoes waterlogged and mushy, while leaving them covered after draining lets surface moisture evaporate so they taste better and hold their shape.
“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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