Boiled New Potatoes
Oven, in the book's wordsThe hot oven
Ingredients
Directions
Select ripe new potatoes.
Scrub with a small vegetable brush to remove all skin.
Boil quickly in salted water until you can pierce them with a fork.
Drain and sprinkle lightly with salt.
Cover with a clean cloth and shake until dry.
Serve immediately.
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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