This does work!

Ingredients:

• 1 standing rib roast
• roast seasoning mix
• rock salt – lots (water-softener salt, not pellets)

Directions:

1. Preheat oven 500°.
2. Season the roast.
3. Place a layer of salt in a deep pan.
4. Sprinkle it with water.
5. Place the roast in the pan.
6. Cover it with salt.  You can sort of mound it.
7. Sprinkle with water.
8. Bake for 12 minutes per pound.
9. Knock the salt off the roast.
10. Wipe any reaming salt off with a paper towel.
11. Serve.
12. Save the salt for next roast.

Serves:   Figure 1 pound per person for a bone in rib roast.  a third to half a pound per person for boneless beef.

Source:   Some magazine long ago.