Cooking New Potatoes

Ingredients

• these are taken from the ground
• salt
• pieces of butter

Method

1. 1

   Scrape skins, boil in scalding water for 15-20 minutes, strain, sprinkle with salt, add butter, and serve.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Recipes for the million (1891), page 178. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

salt, and just before serving add four tablespoonfuls of cream. POTATOES A LA MAITRE D’HOTEL.— Rather more than parboil the potatoes, then take them up, let them get cold, and cut them into moderately thick slices. Put into a stew-pan a lump of fresh butter with a teaspoonful of flour and a teacupful of broth ; when these boil add the potatoes with some finely chopped parsley ; season with salt and pepper, and let them stew for five minutes, during which time beat up the yolk of an egg with a tablespoonful of cold water and a little lemon juice. When the sauce sets, dish up the vegetables, and serve at once. POTATOES (BROILED). — Boil the potatoes till they are rather more than half cooked, then remove the jackets, flour them, and lay them on a greased gridiron over a clear fire. Serve with f'esh butter. POTATOES (FRIED). — Peel the potatoes and throw them into a pan of cold water as they are done, so as to preserve their colour ; cut them into thin slices, and fry in a pan of hot fresh butter. They should be cooked slowly till of a clear brown colour. POTATOES, Irish Method of Cooking. — Wash the skins free from every particle of dirt, cut a thin slice off the end of each potato to prevent the skins breaking, put them into cold water and bring them gradually to near boiling point, then add more cold water, thus checking the heat from time to time until the vegetables are cooked, without having actually boiled ; pour the water off and let the skins dry before peeling. POTATOES (NEW), To Cook. — The sooner these are eaten after they are taken from the ground the better they taste. Scrape off the skins, put into scalding water, and boil for fifteen or twenty minutes ; strain, sprinkle with salt, put over them a few pieces of butter

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.