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Boiling Potatoes

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Boiling Potatoes

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Clean and wash the potatoes, leaving the skin on.

  2. Bring a pot of water to a boil and add the potatoes.

  3. Boil until a fork can be easily thrust through them.

  4. Add cold water to the pot and let the potatoes sit for two minutes.

  5. Pour off the water and partially cover the pot lid.

  6. Keep the potatoes over low heat until the steam evaporates.

  7. Peel the potatoes and serve in an open dish.

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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