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To Boil Potatoes

Boiled potatoes prepared by washing, peeling, cutting eyes, boiling in salted water, draining, and serving hot.

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

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Wash the potatoes thoroughly.

  2. Peel the potatoes with a sharp knife.

  3. Keep the peel as thin as possible.

  4. Cut out the eyes with a pointed knife.

  5. Place the potatoes in a pot.

  6. Cover with cold water.

Cook

  1. Bring a pot of water to a boil.

  2. Add 1 teaspoon of salt for every half gallon of water.

  3. Add the potatoes.

  4. Cook for about 30 minutes.

  5. Drain the water.

  6. Let the potatoes sit on the stove for 5 minutes, shaking constantly.

Serve

  1. Serve very 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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What each ingredient does

Winter potatoes
Starchy flesh that cooks soft and forms the body of the dish.

The step that matters

Drying the potatoes after draining. Letting the potatoes sit and shake on the stove evaporates surface water. Drier surfaces keep the potatoes from turning soggy and help them hold their texture when served.

“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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