Boiled Potatoes
Ingredients
Directions
Peel old potatoes and soak them in cold water for 1 hour before boiling.
Place old potatoes in fresh cold water and set over the heat.
For new potatoes, place them directly into boiling water.
Prepare new potatoes just before cooking.
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.
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