Salt-Baked Potatoes with Roasted Garlic and Rosemary Butter

Name: Salt-Baked Potatoes with Roasted Garlic and Rosemary Butter
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 2 1/2 cups plus 1/8 teaspoon, salt; 4 , russet potatoes, scrubbed and dried; 2 sprigs plus 1/4 teaspoon, minced fresh rosemary; 1 whole head, garlic, outer papery skin removed and top quarter of head cut off and discarded; 4 teaspoons, olive oil; 4 tablespoons, unsalted butter, softened

Side Dishes
Potatoes

Appears in Cook's Illustrated September/October 2011, America's Test Kitchen TV

What can 2 pounds of salt do to a potato that an oven can't?

SERVES 4

TIME 2¼ hours

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