Boiling Potatoes

Ingredients

• two pounds of potatoes
• a teaspoonful of salt

Method

1. 1

   Wash the potatoes well in cold water.

2. 2

   If the potatoes are diseased then take a sharp knife, and peel them, and carefully cut out the eyes and any black specks, but it is otherwise much better to boil them in their skins.

3. 3

   Put them in a saucepan with cold water, enough to cover them, and to every two pounds of potatoes sprinkle a teaspoonful of salt over them.

4. 4

   Put the saucepan on the fire and boil the potatoes from twenty minutes to half an hour.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from The English-Chinese cookery book (1890) by J. Dyer Ball, J. Dyer Ball, J. Dyer (James Dyer) 1890- Ball, page 24. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

BOILING POTATOES. TIME required for boiling potatoes. Old potatoes about half an hour ; new potatoes about twenty minutes ; steamed potatoes, half an hour. Wash the potatoes well in cold water. If the potatoes are diseased then take a sharp knife, and peel them, and carefully cut out the eyes and any black specks, but it is otherwise much better to boil them in their skins. Put them in a saucepan with cold water, enough to cover them, and to every two pounds of potatoes sprinkle a teaspoonful of salt

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