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