Potatoes (How to Boil)

Ingredients

• a good teaspoonful of salt
• your potatoes

Method

1. 1

   Put your potatoes into boiling water with a good teaspoonful of salt; boil for twenty minutes; when soft which can be felt easily by pricking with a fork, throw the water off, put the potatoes back into the saucepan, putting the pot on the stove for a few minutes till the skins burst.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Hilda's "where is it?" of recipes (1891) by Hildagonda J. Duckitt, page 56. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

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