This title offers home cures, recipes, everyday hints and tips. It
is a celebration of one of nature's most powerful ingredients and
how to use it for health and in cooking. It includes a brief
history of salt, its industrial uses and importance in customs,
religions and rituals. It is a guide to the medicinal benefits of
this essential mineral, such as taking salt baths, gargling salt
and swimming in salt water. How to cook with salt while maintaining
a well-balanced diet, with recipes for meat and fish, salt crusts,
sauces, seasonings and bread, and preserving fruit and vegetables.
We cannot do without salt - every living creature needs the
essential sodium in salt. Historically, salt has been the cause of
wars, uprising and revolutions. It has been used as money, and has
been a powerful force in the economic rise and fall of
civilizations. This book explores the history and uses of salt,
proving that it is much more than just a white granular substance
you sprinkle from a salt cellar on to your food. In Roman times, it
was so highly valued that soldiers were paid in salt - which is
where we get the word 'salary' from.Salt also has many important
industrial uses, such as producing plastics, bleaching cotton and
linen, disinfecting water, manufacturing glass, curing leather and
making paper. Last but not least, salt is invaluable in cooking -
when used in moderation - and the book contains a range of recipes
for smoked and cured meat, cheeses, breads, preserved fruit and
vegetables, and tasty sauces and seasonings. There is a guide to
the salt content of processed foods, and an explanation of the
problems that can be caused by eating too much salt.
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