Name: To Make Spice Salt
Ingredients: 2 ounces spice powder; 12 ounces well-dried salt

To Make Spice Salt

Ingredients

2 ounces spice powder
12 ounces well-dried salt

Directions

Mix the spice powder with the salt thoroughly.
Store the mixture in an airtight container in a dry place.

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

Salt: Acts as the base that carries the spice flavor and helps keep the mixture dry and stable.
Spice powder: Provides the aroma and flavor that the salt carries throughout the blend.

“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.