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To Boil Potatoes

Potatoes boiled with salt until tender.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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To Boil Potatoes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Wash the potatoes in cold water and scrub them clean.

  2. Rinse again in fresh water and place them in a saucepan.

  3. Add the salt and enough cold water to cover the potatoes.

Boil and dry

  1. Boil slowly until tender, about 30 minutes.

  2. Drain the water and dry the potatoes in the saucepan over low heat or on the oven shelf.

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

Potatoes
Provide the starchy flesh that becomes soft and fluffy as it cooks in water.
Salt
Seasons the cooking water so the potatoes are flavoured as they simmer.

“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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