Jacket potatoes: how to cook a dish from "Gentlemen of Fortune" with a toothpick
The characters of the cult comedy crush potatoes on both cheeks.
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Anyone knows what a "potato in their skins" is. But not everyone knows that the expression went back to the time of the military campaigns of commander Suvorov, when soldiers cooked potatoes on fire without peeling them.
The characters of the famous comedy by Leonid Gaidai "Gentlemen of Fortune" prepare the same dish for themselves, who needed only water, salt, the potatoes themselves, a saucepan, fire and ... a toothpick for cooking.
The procedure is as follows. Raw potatoes are washed, the peel is cleaned of dirt, the tubers are pierced with a toothpick so that the skin does not crack at high temperatures.
Then the potatoes are placed in a pot of cold water, all this is salted to your taste and discretion.
Then comes the actual cooking over high heat, after which the water is drained. The most important thing in this simple process is not to overdo it.
The potato should turn out soft on the one hand, on the other hand it should fall apart in the mouth, and not in the hands.
