Back in the 1870's Onondaga lake area, the county, produced 2.5 million bushels of fine salt annually. It provided 90% of the nations salt. It also produced the first salt potatoes. Irish and German immigrants flocked to this area for employment. A staple for food at the time was potatoes. So the salt workers would toss in potatoes into the salt kettles and cooked them. Taking them out they found out they were delicious.Afterwards the pubs caught on, so they served salt potatoes with their pints adding in butter. Thus the legendary salt potatoes of Lake Onondaga was born. This is the short version of a true story. The origin, place is approximately there since it would come up with Onondaga Lake, New York.

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Nice and simple side dish and super easy to make.

My nephew dubbed these potatoes ‘special potatoes’ 30 years ago. Every time he came to my house, this is what he wanted with supper. I’m still making them. It came out of stewed potatoes. When I want something similar to the center of a baked potato, but don’t want to wait that long to bake it, I make these. Use a thin skinned potato that you don’t have to peel or peel your potatoes. It’s up to you!

Delicious and nutritious

This dish is perfect with almost any meat dish (especially steaks, roasts) but also with fish or on its own!

Want to make a potato dish thats healthy & delicious.

A terrific side for an easy weeknight meal. Quick and easy.

I made it cause I wanted something different and I am native American so why not try it so that's how I made this and next time I will try adding cauliflower to it.

A small quantity of butter provides the potatoes with rich flavor. If you like sweeter, add more sugar. This is very easy to make and simple dish but tasty to have with rice.