SALT

Last month when I went sailing on a little boat-trip to the small Island Læsø in Kattegat, Denmark. I bought the very delicious Læsø Sydesalt. This special salt is well known among food lovers, chefs and kitchen enthusiasts around the world.

Læsø Sydesalt is produced as pan salt in accordance with ancient recipes in a seething hut. The salty groundwater is obtained from wells at Rønnerne. The water is poured into large iron pans which hang over the fire. The water evaporates and when the brine is saturated the salt crystallises. It’s then shovelled up into large baskets where the excess water drips off prior to the salt being dried and sold.

Here is the Læsø Sydesalt in my Yellow Vintage Salt-jar in hanging in my kitchen!