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Salt-Baked Pears Recipe
The salt crust encasing these pears — a method most often used with whole fish and some poultry — does what salt always does: It amplifies In this instance, the sweet, juicy peary-ness of the pear Ideally, these should be slipped into the oven after pulling out another dish in order to minimize time in the kitchen
egg whites, salt, bosc pears