Flake sea salt (Maldon)

Sel en flocons de Maldon

What it is

Salt has been made on the Blackwater since before the Domesday survey recorded pans there; the present works has boiled estuary water in open pans since 1882. The hollow pyramids form only at the surface of a slow, shallow boil — the shape is a consequence of the pan, not an additive.

In the kitchen

Crush it between thumb and finger over the plate — it is built to shatter, and dissolving it in a liquid wastes the texture and the money together. It weighs about half what fine salt does by volume, so a recipe's teaspoon of table salt is not a teaspoon of this.

Goes with

Rib of beef Dark chocolate Tomato Butter Potato Oyster

Same species

Alaea red Hawaiian salt Sodium bicarbonate Fleur de sel de Guérande Himalayan pink salt Kala namak (Indian black salt) Kansui

Also used with

Gernika pepper

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