Salt-Roasted Potatoes with Roast Shallot and Thyme Butter

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated September/October 2011

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

SERVES 4

TIME 2¼ hours

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Sometimes baked potatoes can use a flavor boost. And instead of light and fluffy, most often they are dense and crumbly. We found that baking the potatoes on a bed of salt remedied these problems. Moisture that escaped the potatoes during b...

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