SC - pepper

[Decker, Terry D.]

> >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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