Katie Stewart

Baked Potatoes with Salt

Preparation info

  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in

top 1000The Times Calendar Cookbook

The Times Calendar Cookbook

By Katie Stewart

Published 1977

  • About

Potatoes are just right now for baking in their jackets. Choose potatoes that go soft and floury. Roll them in kitchen salt before baking – salt brings out the flavour and keeps the skins crisp.

Ingredients

  • 4 large even-sized potatoes
  • coarse kitchen salt
  • butter

Method

Scrub the potatoes well and while still damp roll in kitchen salt. Set in a baking or roasting tin – this is easiest for four or more potatoes. Place in a moderate oven (180°C., 350°F., Gas Mark 4) and bake for 1½-1¾ hours. When cooked the potatoes will feel quite soft when the sides are gently pressed.

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