Name: Boiled Potatoes — with the Skins
Ingredients: Potatoes; Cold water; Pinch of salt

Boiled Potatoes — with the Skins

Ingredients

Potatoes
Cold water
Pinch of salt

Directions

Wash the potatoes thoroughly.
Place them in a pot with cold water and add a pinch of salt.
Ensure the potatoes are of uniform size.
Cook steadily until tender.
Drain and serve 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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Boiled Potatoes — with the Skins