Mystery Recipe Exploration Summer 2023 - Salt Week

I was initially thrown by salt as the mystery ingredient this week. I mean, I use salt in almost every single recipe I make, but how do you really highlight it? Well, after a little researching and exploring, I discovered there's more to salt than meets the eye.

Here's a good article about salt's uses from Spruce Eats: Six Functions of Salt in Food. Our bodies need salt so one use is obviously as a nutrient, but it also helps preserve food and enhance the flavor by cutting bitterness or enhancing and balancing out sweetness. And I did not know you needed it in yeast breads for proper rise and structure! I always thought it was just for flavor!

So, using that article as inspiration, I've put together some ways to explore salt's different uses in this week's activity calendar, which you can download here: 

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