Sometimes only one small pinch of salt separates a tasty dish from tasteless or tasteless. Salt – great natural preservative, it, in literal sense, extends vital moisture from harmful microorganisms, without allowing them to grow and to breed. As seasoning, salt regulates balance between sweet and sour, increasing sweet of the first and reducing acidity of the second.
Instruction
1. In the majority of recipes if it isn't specified especially, ordinary table salt of a fine crushing means. You can easily replace it with table iodinated salt or if it doesn't contradict taste of a dish, the flavored salt with herbs. Kosher and sea salt is popular with cooks. It is considered that they have more mild flavor. Exotic types of salt it is possible to call the French, Hawaiian sea salt, black Indian salt and strongly salty Korean bamboo salt. Rock salt is used, generally to bake also in it fish or meat, for salting and for production of ice cream.
2. If in the recipe the volume isn't specified, and it is written "salt to taste" and you doubt that how many it is necessary to measure it, follow these recommendations: - on two hundred fifty milliliters of broth, soup or sauce one teaspoon of salt suffices; - without bones put two teaspoons of salt on each halves a kilo of meat; - one teaspoon of salt is enough for four glasses of flour for the test; - at preparation of porridges put one teaspoon on each two glasses; - when cooking vegetables one teaspoon on each three glasses of water suffices; - one tablespoon of salt goes also on a water liter floor for cooking of pasta.
3. If you don't have near at hand, the specified in the recipe, small table salt, and there is more coarse salt, for example, kosher, then remember that one tablespoon of coarse salt is equal to, about, two teaspoons of cooking.
4. If in the recipe it is specified "salt on a knife tip" or "a salt pinch", then it is equivalent to two grams of salt. Salt "on a knife tip" is usually taken a knife with the rounded-off tip, with the hill.
5. If salt in the recipe is specified in grams, and you have near at hand no kitchen scales, then measure salt by spoons or if it it is necessary much, cups. - in one dessertspoon, about, five grams of salt; - in one teaspoon, without hill, about ten grams of salt; - in one tablespoon 27 grams of small table salt are located; - in one cup about 180 grams of salt.