Potatoes au Naturel
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Ingredients 3 ingredients
- Salt
- Potatoes
- a cupful of cold water
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
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- Choose those of uniform size;
- put on in their skins, in boiling water.
- When about half done, check the boil suddenly by a cupful of cold water.
- This is said to make old potatoes mealy.
- Boil again until a fork will pierce them.
- Drain off the water;
- sprinkle with salt to make the skins crack, and dry out in the uncovered pot, on the range, for a few minutes before peeling.
Plating
Cookware for this recipe
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Saucepan
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Vegetable peeler
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Colander