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Boiled Potatoes

Boiled potatoes are cooked in salted water and served hot.

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

Ingredients

Directions

Boil new potatoes

  1. Wash new potatoes thoroughly.

  2. Place them in boiling water.

  3. Boil for 30 minutes.

  4. Serve immediately.

Prepare and boil old potatoes

  1. Peel old potatoes thinly with a sharp knife.

  2. Soak old potatoes in cold water for a few hours before boiling.

  3. Boil old potatoes in boiling water for 30 minutes.

  4. Add a handful of salt after 15 minutes.

Drain and serve

  1. Turn off the water.

  2. Let them sit for 3 minutes on the back of the stove.

  3. Shake them gently.

  4. Transfer to a serving 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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What each ingredient does

New potatoes
Young, thin-skinned potatoes that hold their shape well when boiled whole.
Old potatoes
Mature potatoes with more starch, so they soften and turn fluffy as they cook.

“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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