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Larded Potatoes

A potato with a bacon strip inserted, baked until cooked.

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

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Make a small incision in the potato and insert the bacon.

  2. Bake the potato until fully cooked.

  3. Serve hot.

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.

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What each ingredient does

Bacon
Adds fat and savory flavor as it renders inside the potato while it bakes.
Potato
Provides the starchy body of the dish, softening into a fluffy interior when baked.

“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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