Name: How to Boil Potatoes
Ingredients: potatoes; pure water

How to Boil Potatoes

Ingredients

potatoes
pure water

Directions

Wash the potatoes and leave the skins on.
Place the potatoes in a pot and cover them with pure water.
Boil the potatoes until tender.
Drain the water and leave the pot uncovered over low heat until the potatoes are dry.
If desired, bake the potatoes for a crispier texture.

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.