bay-salt

Cut off the roots of two tongues, take three ounces of saltpetre, a little bay-salt and common salt, rub them very well, let them lie a week or ten days to make them red, but not salt, so boil them tender as they will blanch, strow over them a few bread crumbs, set them before the fire to brown on every side.

English Housewifery 2004

The streets were now strangely encumbered with snow, which crumbled and trod dusty, mid, turning gray, resembled bay-salt; what had fallen on the roofs was so perfectly dry, that from first to last it lay twenty-six days on the houses in the city -- a longer time than had been remembered by the oldest housekeepers living.

MacMillan's Reading Books Book V Anonymous

America, bay-salt only excepted, by which means the amount of the revenue would keep pace with the wealth of the province.

The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr

Otherways powder them with bay-salt, and being well smoakt, hang them up in a garret or cellar, and let them come no more at the fire till they be boil'd.

The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery Robert May

-- They are preserved in barrels, with bay-salt; no other fish has the fine flavor of the anchovy.

Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 Barkham Burroughs

It is necessary that a pan of water should be place in their house each day for them to wash in, and that a large lump of bay-salt should likewise be kept there.

Our Farm of Four Acres and the Money we Made by it Miss Coulton

Making of bay-salt, if the climate be proper for it, would be put in experience.

XXXIII. Of Plantations 1909

He urged a varied planting and the making of pitch and tar, pipe-staves, potashes, iron, and bay-salt, and warned the planters against "building their plantation wholly on smoke."

England in America, 1580-1652 Lyon Gardiner Tyler 1894

Early English a wick or wich; and the material so produced is still known in trade as bay-salt.

Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Grant Allen 1873

But the good, easy-going mediæval people who gave these quaint names to the inland wiches had probably no idea that they were really and truly dried-up bays, and that the salt they mined from their pits was genuine ancient bay-salt, the deposit of an old inland sea, evaporated by slow degrees a countless number of ages since, exactly as the Dead Sea and the Great Salt Lake are getting evaporated in our own time.

Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Grant Allen 1873