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Steamed Potatoes

Steamed potatoes are cooked by steaming peeled potatoes in salted water until tender.

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

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Wash the potatoes well in cold water.

  2. Fill a saucepan with hot water and bring it to a boil.

  3. Place the potatoes in a potato steamer and sprinkle with salt.

Steam

  1. Set the steamer over the boiling water and cover tightly.

  2. Steam the potatoes for 30 minutes.

  3. Check for tenderness by inserting a fork into the center.

Serve

  1. Carefully remove the potatoes from the steamer, peel them, and arrange on a hot vegetable dish for serving.

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

Old potatoes
Their starchy flesh turns soft, fluffy and tender when steamed.

The step that matters

Set the steamer over the boiling water and cover tightly.. The potatoes need to cook in rising steam, not in water. A tight lid keeps the steam trapped and the heat steady, so the potatoes cook evenly. Lifting the lid lets steam escape and slows cooking.

“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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