Name: Boiled Potatoes
Ingredients: one peel lengthwise; salt

Boiled Potatoes

Ingredients

one peel lengthwise
salt

Directions

To boil potatoes with skins on. cut off one peel lengthwise, and put in to boil in hot water, with a little salt. When done they are dry, and the skin is ready to drop off; Or, potatoes pared and put into hot water, with a little pinch of salt; when done, pour off all the water, and sprinkle a little salt on them, shaking the pot vigorously back and forth a few times; the salt absorbs all the moisture, and they come out dry and mealy. This is excellent for potatoes late in the spring when they are apt to be sodden.

By Sterrett, Laura C. 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.