A wise man once said,
"No dish is complete without potatoes."
I don't know who said that,
but I think they could be right.
Of course, you can boil potatoes and
add enough butter, great.
By peeling the potatoes in the way
that we do in this recipe, and then boiling
them quite hard with water and butter, while stirring it...
it breaks down the outside of the potato,
and the potato's starch emulsifies
the butter and the water, and you just get
a really dirty boiled buttered potato.