"Janet Baraclough" wrote in message
New potatoes are just the first of the crop, picked immature and very
small (about 4 or 5 cm long), tender skinned and tasty. When I was a
child in Lancashire, people used to boil them for a few minutes in their
skins over a brazier on street corners and sell them as street food,
well salted in a paper bag...food of the gods.

Janet.

Um you don,t sound that old here Janet! ;-)
John T