Practical Household Uses of Salt: Home Cures, Recipes, Everyday Hints and Tips

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