Syracuse Salt Potatoes

Name: Syracuse Salt Potatoes
Yield: Serves 6 to 8
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 8 cups, water; 1 1/4 cups, salt; 3 pounds, small red potatoes or small white potoates, scrubbed; 8 tablespoons (1 stick), unsalted butter, cut into pieces; 2 tablespoons, minced fresh chives; 1 teaspoon, pepper

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Appears in Cook's Country August/September 2008, America's Test Kitchen TV

A little salt sure makes everything taste better. But in Salt City (Syracuse, N. Y.) the only way to cook potatoes is with a lot of salt.

SERVES6 to 8

TIME40 minutes

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Some Syracuse Salt Potatoes recipes call for three cups of salt, but we found that to be excessive. We reduced the salt content dramatically to create a potato recipe with a well-seasoned (not too salty) crust and ultra-creamy interior. Bot...

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