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Boiled Potatoes

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Boiled Potatoes

Oven, in the book's wordsA moderately hot oven

Ingredients

Directions

  1. If using new potatoes, boil them in their jackets. For old potatoes, peel them thinly.

  2. Place the potatoes in a pot and cover with boiling salted water.

  3. Boil fast until tender, about 20 minutes.

  4. Drain the water and let the potatoes sit on the back of the stove to dry, shaking the pan occasionally.

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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