Heart to Hearth Cookery

Making salt

The very hot temperatures on Sunday, July 10th assisted me in making my 18th century salt demonstration more real.    To reduce the amount of fuel that the colonial saltworks needed to use during the important salt making for our needs during the American Revolution, sea water was first concentrated with the use of solar evaporation.  You can see the salt line when the sea water was in my copper pan and the salt crystals that started to form which I could actually skim off with my skimmer.