SC - pepper
Decker, Terry D.
TerryD at Health.State.OK.US
Fri Feb 19 21:10:57 PST 1999
> >Looking in Waverly Root's Food, the comment is made that Horace thought
> the
> >perfect general seasoning was black salt and white pepper. Horace lived
> in
> >the 1st Century BCE, so white pepper should be in period.
>
>
> What is black salt?
>
> Faoiltighearna
>
It is a type of salt that was mined in India in Antiquity. I know nothing
about its composition, but I suspect that it was regular salt with a high
percentage of manganese compound impurities.
Bear
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