Name: Boiled Potatoes
Ingredients: 1 teaspoon salt; salt

Boiled Potatoes

Ingredients

1 teaspoon salt
salt

Directions

Select solid medium sized potatoes. Wash and cut off the ends. Put in a pot with enough boiling water to cover well, add 1 teaspoon salt, cover and boil about 35 minutes, or until tender. Take up in a skimmer, arrange on a napkin on a hot dish, cover with the ends of the napkin and serve. Potatoes either baked or boiled in their jackets should not be put in a covered dish.
Or peel and boil or steam. Serve as soon as done.

By Martin, Maria Ewing, Mrs., [from old catalog] comp. 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. See the original page.