Making wild herb salt
Ingredients (50% herbs | 50% flake salt)
- Taraxacum officinale (blossom & leaf)
- Rubus ideaus (leaf)
- Ribes nigrum (leaf)
- Achillea millefolium (blossom & leaf)
- Plantago lanceolata (blossom & leaf)
- Matricaria recutita (blossom & leaf)
- Ocimum basilicum (leaf)
- Borago officinalis (blossom)
- Anethum graveolens (blossom & leaf)
- Origanum majorana (blossom & leaf)
- Allium schoenoprasum (leaf)
- Petroselinum crispum (leaf)
- Trifolium pratense (blossom & leaf)
- Rosmarinus officinalis (leaf)
- Thymus serpyllum (blossom & leaf)
- Alchemilla vulgaris (blossom & leaf)
- Mentha officinalis (leaf)
- Angelica archangelica officialis (blossom)
- Angelica sylvestris (blossom)
- Stellaria graminea (blossom & leaf)
- Centaurea jacea (blossom)
- Galium album (blossom & leaf)
- Trifolium repens (blossom & leaf)
- Aposeris foetida (blossom)
How it works:
- Collect herbs you like.
- Chop the herbs.
- Mix the herbs with flake salt.
- Crush the mixture finely.
- Let it dry for three days, stirring it daily.
- Fill into clean jars.
Each year, I learn a little more about wild herbs and which ones I can gather from the garden and the forest. This particular blend is made almost entirely from wild herbs growing in our own woodland.
You can see the process in the photos below. Enjoy — and bon appétit!
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