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To Boil Potatoes

A simple boiled potato dish seasoned with salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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To Boil Potatoes

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderate oven

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Wash the potatoes thoroughly.

  2. Peel the potatoes with a sharp knife, keeping the peel as thin as possible.

  3. Cut out the eyes with a pointed knife.

  4. Plunge the potatoes into cold water to cover.

Boil and serve

  1. Put the potatoes into a saucepan of boiling water with 1 teaspoon of salt for half an hour.

  2. Drain the water and let the potatoes sit on the side of the stove for five minutes, shaking constantly.

  3. Serve very hot.

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

Winter potatoes
Form the entire dish, so their starch and texture set the result as they cook 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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