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Boiled Potatoes

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United Kingdom

Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

Ingredients 3 ingredients

  1. Potatoes
  2. Water
  3. a dessertspoonful of salt

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.

Method

  1. Wash and peel the potatoes as thinly as possible, and keep them in cold water till wanted.
  2. Then place them in a saucepan with enough cold water to cover them, and about a dessertspoonful of salt to every quart of water;
  3. bring to the boil, and boil gently till the potatoes are soft, but not broken, then drain away all the water and return the saucepan to the fire with the lid half on, shake the pan to make the potatoes floury, then serve in a hot tureen.
  4. The time depends on the size and sort of potato, from twenty to forty minutes.
  5. In choosing potatoes for boiling, use those of about the same size, or the smaller ones will be broken before the large ones are soft.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Vegetable peeler
  • Colander