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Another Wat to Boil Potatoes

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Another Wat to Boil Potatoes

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Wash the potatoes thoroughly.

  2. Place them in a saucepan with cold water and cover.

  3. Bring the water to a boil quickly.

  4. Once boiling, pour off the water and cover the potatoes with cold water.

  5. Add a little coarse sea salt.

  6. When the water boils again, pour it off immediately.

  7. Dry the potatoes and remove the skins before serving.

  8. For new potatoes, boil for about 20 minutes to avoid water-soaking.

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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