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Ron Brind Posts: 19041 Joined: 26th Oct 2003 Location: England | quotePosted at 12:16 on 5th July 2009 What is salt money, and where did the saying 'worth one's salt' originate? Roman soldiers apparently received salt as a portion of their pay, could that be right also? |
Peter Evans Posts: 3863 Joined: 20th Aug 2006 Location: UK | quotePosted at 13:22 on 5th July 2009 All true Ron. Salt was used as a form of curency even before the Romans. To be worth ones weight in salt was to be very rich. Salt was not was not wasted, so to be worth ones salt, was to be a worthwhile person. In the hot climates of North Africa and Middles east salt is sweated out of the body and has to be repaced. So it was very expensive. Even the wild animals look for salt licks because they instinctively know that they need it. |
lancashirelove Posts: 1986 Joined: 18th Feb 2009 Location: UK | quotePosted at 13:32 on 5th July 2009 Salt is still valuble in north africa were salt traders travel hundreds of miles with camel trains to mine salt in baking temperatures to sell on open markets. |
Shirley K. Lawson Posts: 2310 Joined: 17th Jul 2008 Location: USA | quotePosted at 19:41 on 5th July 2009 Eipcurious on the Food Channel use to do an segament on how they made salt in the Mediteranean areas...it was kind of interesting. With salt you don' t have to have refrigeration for meat and so it was an very important meat preservative in its day. Very few bugs and or microragaisms can stand up the test of time against it. Epsom salts is used you know as an therpay for achy muscles an joints. Receipe...2 Tablespoons ground ginger and 1/4 cup of honey to an bathtub of water for aches and pains. If you feel to tingly just rinse it off. They claim that dead sea salts is the most theraputic type of salt out in the world, if you can get to the dead sea and do an "mud pack" in it that it heals many with chronic ailments... allievaties illnesses like pain from "MS" also. |
| Ron Brind Posts: 19041 Joined: 26th Oct 2003 Location: England | quotePosted at 22:06 on 7th July 2009 Hi Shirley, yeah we have 'cured' hams before now using salt. |
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