Salt

It bring out the flavour of other ingredients. The other name for salt is sodium chloride, its is readily available in all parts of the world in a solid or in a solution from . 

      Salt , having a distinctive taste, transforms an insipid dish to a wonderful dish. It should be used skilfully, or too much of it could spoil the dish. 

      Salt is available in 3 forms:

         1. Table salt containing phosphate. 

          2. Coarse or freezing salt for culinary                   purposes. 

          3. Celery salt which is a blend of celery                root and oridinary salt and is                             readily available over the counter,                   it is used for flavoring certain dises                  as alternative to fresh celery or                          celery seed. 

                                   Salt

Uses of salt:

1. Use of the correct amount of salt improves the flavour of the savoury dishes and when a little is added to sweet dishes, it enhances the flavour. 

2. It has a physical effect on the gluten of flour and strengthens gluten and increases its resistance to the softening effects of fermentation. 

3. Cauliflower, when put in salted water, makes the insects come out. 

4. Salt is one of the oldest popular methods of preserving ham, bacon, fish, etc. 

7. Salt ie essential for good health.