SC - period salt

[Stefan li Rous]

Andy asked:
> How can I make some for a 11 century and 16 century reenactment. I would
> like to do white and green

I don't think I've ever heard of the different salts called by those names.
This basically refers to how well refined they were. I do remember the salt
recovered from the sea being referred to as brown. However, such salt because
the crystals were bigger was actually better for salting meat and fish than
the purer forms obtained from brine mines. For some info on period salt take
a look at these two files in the COMMERCE section of my Florilegium files:
salt-msg          (28K)  8/31/99    Medieval salt production and use.
salt-comm-art     (18K)  1/ 9/97    "Salt of the Earth" by Lord Xaviar.

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