Potatoes
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Choose medium-sized, blemish-free potatoes, preferably reddish or yellowish.
Wash the potatoes without peeling or cutting them.
Fill a saucepan halfway with the potatoes.
Add enough cold water to cover the potatoes by about an inch.
Cook
Boil the potatoes until tender.
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
- Potatoes
- Provide the starchy body of the dish; cooking softens their starch until they turn tender.
“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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