Baked Potatoes - American Recipe

Baked Potatoes

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Simple baked potatoes as prepared in the American home kitchen of the 1920s.

Ingredients

Method

1. Select — potatoes of uniform size, wash them in cold water, and scrub with a stiff brush.
2. Dry — the potatoes on a cloth, and put them on the lower rack in a hot oven.
3. Reduce — the heat a little, and bake from thirty to sixty minutes, depending upon the size of the potatoes.
4. Take — from the oven and pinch each potato until the skin breaks on one side (this allows the steam to escape and prevents sogginess).

Tags: potato · Source: The Plain Sailing Cook Book (1922)