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Boiled new potatoes served whole with coarse sea salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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New Potatoes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Wash the new potatoes and rub the skins off with a rough cloth.

Cook and serve

  1. Place the potatoes in boiling water with a little coarse sea salt.

  2. Cook until tender.

  3. Serve whole.

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

New potatoes
Provide the starchy body of the dish, cooking to a tender, soft texture.

“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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