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To Make Spice Salt, Otherwise Sel-a-picer

A mixture of allspice and coarse sea salt used as a seasoning.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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To Make Spice Salt, Otherwise Sel-a-picer

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Mix the allspice with the coarse sea salt.

  2. Store the mixture in a dry jar.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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What each ingredient does

Allspice
Provides the warm, aromatic flavour that defines the seasoning.
Coarse sea salt
Carries the spice and seasons the mixture evenly.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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