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Boiling Potatoes

A simple boiled potato dish seasoned with coarse sea salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Boiling Potatoes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. If potatoes are shriveled, soak them in cold water for 1 hour after peeling.

  2. For fresh winter potatoes, place them in boiling water.

Boil and serve

  1. Boil the potatoes slowly until done.

  2. Drain the potatoes and shake them briefly in the air.

  3. Sprinkle with coarse sea salt and keep warm on the back of the stove.

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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What each ingredient does

Potatoes
Provide the starchy body of the dish, becoming soft and fluffy when cooked through.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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