IN Maundy Thursday, the day before Great Feast of Easter In Russia, they always prepared "black salt" or, as it was also called, "Thursday salt". Black salt was consecrated in the church along with Thursday bread, Easter cakes and eggs. This unique medicinal salt differs from ordinary salt even in its appearance - it is black. Such salt was prepared in the oven - from coarse rock salt, leavened leaves, herbs and cabbage leaves. Thursday salt is tasty and healthy, because after burning, such useful substances as potassium, phosphorus, iodine, chromium, magnesium remain in it, in addition, black salt gives the products a special aroma.

Useful properties of black salt

Black salt is useful for people with kidney disease, heart disease, hypertension, hypotension. Because it is enriched with potassium, calcium, magnesium ions, and selenium elements. Moreover, this salt is of immense benefit as an adsorbent. The carbon contained in it in the form of fine-pored coal removes toxins from the body, that is, black salt is an "absorber" of all toxins. Its therapeutic effect is completely similar to that of activated carbon.

Thursday salt ( quadrangular salt) - salt, "made" on the night from Wednesday to Thursday of Holy Week or in the morning on Maundy Thursday, endowed with special magical powers. The custom of ritual use of salt is very ancient, which has come down from the pre-Slavic times, when for any salt they recognized the ability to scare away harmful forces, to protect a person.

Fourth salt(black salt) - a product used in Russian Orthodox culture; salt prepared in a special way on Maundy Thursday of Holy Week.

In addition to the taste and the presence of a large number of elements useful for the body, quaternary salt was considered magical and healers and sorcerers resorted to its healing and magical properties. First of all, quaternary salt can cope with any black energy, clean not only a thing or room, but also a person's aura. Magic salt was used in ancient rituals to scare away dark forces and protect a person from damage from the evil eye, etc. Unfortunately, many of the recipes for making Thursday salt have been lost, but still several proven cooking methods have survived to this day. Despite the fact that black salt was cooked in ovens, it is quite possible to cook it in the oven or over an open fire.

Thursday salt based on kvass grounds
Mix the leavened dough (after fermentation of the wort) with coarse rock salt. Instead of leavened bread, you can use rye or Borodino bread (for 1 kg of salt 5 kg of bread), mix the soaked bread with salt, place in an oven or oven heated to 250 ° C, and cook until the bread turns black.

Grind the resulting mixture and filter through a sieve. The salt remaining in the sieve is poured into jars and used instead of ordinary salt.

Thursday salt with cabbage leaves.
Chop the green top leaves from the cabbage head and mix with rock salt. Then burn in the oven or oven. With herbs Mix herbs (oregano, mint) with rock salt and rye or Borodino bread (leavened milk) and burn in the oven or oven.

This delicious and healing salt is still being prepared in Kostroma and is called Kostroma black salt.

And here is a short summary of how you can make such salt at home:

Hard-boiled eggs lightly flavored with black salt, bread with lean or butter, all kinds of green salads become very appetizing. Black salt is tasty and healthy; after burning, a number of minerals (potassium, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, iodine, chromium) remain in it.

Studies have shown that as a result of roasting in black salt, compared to ordinary table salt, the following decreases dozens of times:

• * amount of heavy metals,
• * the chlorine content decreases
• * these are just those impurities, because of which common salt is called "white death".
• * When fired in black salt, carbons are formed, which, when consumed, remove toxins from the body.
• * Black salt is much richer in trace elements than regular salt.

According to Christian beliefs, Thursday salt has healing and magical properties, helps to attract luck and well-being.

How to make quaternary salt at home

You will need:

• Cast iron skillet
• Kvass grounds (or rye flour)
• Coarse salt
• Wooden spoon
• A linen bag or glass jar for storing prepared salt

Instructions
1. In order for the Thursday salt to be tasty and not burnt during cooking, you need to use a cast iron skillet. In the absence of such dishes, you can heat the salt in any other thick-walled dish, but if possible, do not use aluminum. To prevent salt from absorbing harmful heavy metals during long cooking at high temperatures.

2. Pour salt and rye flour into a preheated skillet. While gradually increasing the temperature, stir the salt and flour clockwise throughout the cooking time. It is best to use a wooden spoon or spatula for mixing. Calcining lasts a long time until the salt and flour darken.

3. As soon as the salt changes color, turn off the stove and leave the prepared salt on the stove until midnight. After midnight, the salt should be poured into a tight canvas bag or into a glass jar, which will also need to be tightly sealed. The Thursday salt is ready and ready to be consumed.

4. If you do not have kvass grounds, then instead of it, you can use soaked rye or Borodino bread in a proportion of 1 kg of coarse salt - 5 kg of bread. These ingredients are mixed, then the prepared mixture is placed in an oven preheated to 250 degrees and baked until the bread turns black. After that, the mixture must be crushed and sieved through a sieve.

Each village had its own recipe for such black salt. For example, in Kostroma, herbs such as oregano and mint were added to the Thursday salt when cooking with the usual ingredients. Hence the name of this salt - Kostroma black salt.

It is advisable to cook it in the oven and on Maundy Thursday, soon such a day will come - before Easter, and if it ended, it was still cooked on Thursday, and not on another day of the week, they believed and believe that this day enhances the healing properties of salt.

There are no Russian stoves, we will cook in the oven:
The proportions are as follows: 1 kilogram of salt + 5 kilograms of bread, soak rye bread, Borodino, squeeze out excess water and combine with simple coarse rock salt, mix everything well. Distribute the mixture evenly on a baking sheet and in a hot oven, temperature 250 "C and bake until it turns black. Remove, let it cool, grind and sift through a sieve, fine to the side, we need the coarse burnt salt remaining in the sieve. In others recipes, simply grind the resulting mixture, grind, do not sift.

Why cast iron frying pan?

Because energy will not leak through cast iron, it has such a property. So if you don't have a cast-iron frying pan at home, take it from any metal, but with a thick bottom and high walls. Only do not take aluminum dishes. Aluminum is a good conductor, which means that everything flows easily and quickly through it. And the power of Thursday Salt will not linger in such a dish, it will drain.

And here are recipes from the arsnal of healers and sorcerers, which were mentioned at the beginning of the article

Charmed salt

*** Black salt can be made on the basis of herbs, leaven, cabbage leaves. Salt should be prepared on Thursday between sunrise and sunset. Oregano and mint are mixed with rock salt and soaked Borodino bread, then this mixture is burned in the oven. If you want to take kvass grounds as a basis, then mix it with rock salt and also bake in the oven until the mixture turns black. The ratio of salt to bread or kvass is 1: 5. You can also use cabbage leaves, for this use the top green leaves from the cabbage head, chop them finely and mix with rock salt, then burn in the oven until the mixture turns black.

*** After you have prepared the salt, you need to speak it. Pour the prepared salt into a new dish and place this dish on a clean cloth. Then light a church candle and read the prayer: "God, our Savior, who appeared through the prophet Elisha in Jericho and so through salt, made harmful water healthy! You yourself bless this salt and make it an offering of joy. For you are our God, and we are we send glory to you, Father and Son and Holy Spirit, now and always and forever and ever. Amen. "

The salt is ready, now it can be eaten.

Consecrated salt

*** This salt is prepared from ordinary table salt in a special ceremony using gold and silver jewelry. It is believed that such salt has more powerful cleansing properties than salt that is spoken through prayer. Gold jewelry, which is needed for the ceremony, must be without stones, it can be a bracelet, chain, ring, earrings, brooch. The most suitable decoration for the ceremony is a cast bracelet, wedding ring, massive chains. Magic actions must be carried out within three days in the morning.

The first day

Table salt must be calcined over a fire in a frying pan for half an hour, without letting it cool down, pour salt into a glass dish with a lid, this can be a jar, salt will be stored in this jar. Put a gold jewelry on top of the salt, close the jar tightly and put it in a dark place for a day.

Second day

Remove the gold jewelry from the jar and re-heat the salt on the fire for 20 minutes, then pour it back into the jar, and put a silver item on top, close the jar and hide it for a day in a dark place.

Day three

On the third day, the salt must again be calcined over an open fire for 10 minutes after removing the silver product from it. After that, while the salt is still hot, you need to put the pan in front of you and stretch your arms over the salt for 10 minutes to charge it with your energy. To do this, simply relax and feel the warmth radiating from the salt. After that, pour the salt into a jar, now it can be used to cleanse a person and your home from dark energy.

Magic salt from spoilage and love spell

The use of black salt is one of the most effective methods to rid a person of evil influences. You will need a liter of spring water and a teaspoon of magic salt. Dissolve the salt in the water and give it to someone you think has been jinxed or spoiled. You need to drink 1 liter in 30 minutes. If a person has an urge to vomit or an upset stomach, this indicates that the cleansing process is working. Every day, a person should drink 1 liter of water with salt, until after taking water with Thursday salt, vomiting or diarrhea stops.

Gift - lining

Many have come across at least once in their lives with things that brought illnesses, quarrels, a streak of failures to the house. Usually, such things either appear in the house from nowhere, they are found completely by accident, or they are brought as a gift. People call such a thing a lining, the magic trick of a lining is to bring into the house a thing that has destructive energy. If a thing is thrown, then having found an object that appeared from nowhere, it immediately becomes clear that it is he who is evil, but what to do when the thing is presented? How do you distinguish among the many gifts an item that ruins your life?

It is in such a situation that the Thursday salt will come in handy. Items that arouse suspicion should be dipped in magic salt in turn and left there for several days. If this object is a lining, then within literally a few days the troubles should stop, because salt neutralizes negative energy. If you made a mistake with the subject, then nothing will change in the coming days. If the object is too large and cannot be immersed in salt, then it is outlined with Thursday salt counterclockwise, and this "salt circle" is left for several days until you notice improvements, if no positive changes come, then you have chosen the wrong thing

Usually, for the effect of salt to manifest itself, you need to wait about a week. When you find the source of your troubles, try to burn it, and the ashes and those parts that have not burned should be thrown into running water. If the object cannot be burned, then the thing should be thrown into running water - a stream or river, if this is not possible, then it must be given to a church or donated to someone.

What is Thursday Salt

Thursday's salt is mainly prepared (baked) in monasteries. An obedient monk (doing kitchen work) during Holy Week, on Maundy Thursday, prepares a preparation for preparing Thursday salt (black salt) by mixing salt with the remaining leavened kvass. The presence of kvass on the lean menu is required. There are many options for kvass - bread, beetroot, carrot ... Therefore, there are many and different thicknesses of kvass. It is rich in such important and useful substances as phosphorus, iodine, potassium, chromium, magnesium.

The leavened residue can be replaced with rye bread, similar to "Borodinsky".

0.5 kg of coarse rock salt

2.5 loaves of bread, Borodino

Bread, soak, squeeze, roll out of it small balls the size of a tennis ball from tennis. We bake in the oven, laying out on coals, at a temperature of about 500 degrees, until the balls turn black.

Before sending salt to the oven for baking, a prayer is made over it!

Prayer over salt:

God our Savior, who came to Jericho under Elisha the prophet, healed salt from harmful waters: bless this salt yourself, and offer it as a sacrifice of joy.
Thou art our God, and we send to you in glory, to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, now and forever and forever and ever, amen.

Already prepared salt turns black and can be compressed. It is necessary to wrap it in cloth and break it into small pieces with a hammer. There is no need to throw away the remains of burnt bread - this is a natural carbon sorbent that perfectly replaces activated carbon and is able to remove toxins from your body. When consumed, mix 1/2 teaspoon with water and use for preventive cleansing. Burnt bread is sifted out with a sieve.

According to the Easter tradition, black Thursday salt should be consecrated in the church along with Easter cake, dyes (Easter eggs) and cooked cottage cheese Easter.

On the day of the great Resurrection, colored eggs are sprinkled with Thursday salt. But you can't dip eggs in salt. The crumbs from the product should not contaminate her. take a pinch of black salt and sprinkle the eggs gently. This also applies to the rest of the products. From the custom, the rule of etiquette has grown which prohibits dipping anything in salt!

According to the established modern church canons, black Thursday salt is prepared once on a clean Thursday for the whole year.

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Recipe. How to make black quaternary salt at home?

This procedure for preparing Thursday salt can be carried out at home. Prada, the conditions for its preparation are not entirely suitable, but it is possible. Buy salt and roast it with herbs or black bread. But at home it is better to cook salt without additives, otherwise the whole kitchen will be smoky!

The easiest way to make quaternary salt at home is to take and heat it in a skillet, preferably cast iron. Salt, again, will need to be coarsely ground without any additives! True, after calcination, it will remain light. Do not forget to read a prayer before you start cooking.

Calcining salt, in addition to the ritual meaning, is of very important practical importance. At high temperatures: 250 - 280 degrees, in salt, one of the most harmful chlorine compounds associated with sodium is destroyed, which, even with a slight overdose in the body, violate the potassium-sodium balance. After all, a lack of potassium significantly affects the work of the human cardiovascular system. Here, in the Thursday salt, the amount of potassium increases, as well as selenium, calcium and other trace elements that increase its nutritional, dietary and health-improving value. Black salt is much less able to retain water in the body, therefore, the slimming effect is increased. Reduces the harmful effect on hypertensive patients and people suffering from kidney disease. Also, this salt does not harm people suffering from chronic diseases. And it’s just delicious!

The benefits of black Thursday salt

Black salt is no longer "white death". It is used as ordinary commercial table salt.

In principle, black Thursday salt can be cooked not necessarily on Clean Thursday. Why? Soon I will substantiate and write.

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What will it be about?

Not all people are familiar with Orthodox traditions and the rituals that have grown out of them. Before we talk about how to make quaternary salt, let's say a few words about it.

The name is intriguing, and what it says, perhaps, not everyone knows. Such, of course, a miracle cure is customary to cook on Maundy Thursday. This is one of the days of the Easter week. Remember that on Thursday everyone is supposed to clean up, bathe and pray to get rid of sin? It's a great time to prepare all kinds of medicines. One of them is quaternary salt. How do you make a food or seasoning magical? Have you thought about this? Ever wondered what sorcerers or sorcerers are doing to influence their clients and victims? Surely such nonsense rarely occurs to a modern person. And they were different. They had a belief in miracles and witchcraft, gods and their incredible capabilities.

The oldest recipes

There is a wise old tome with an interesting title "The Book of the Hidden Tree of Life". It also tells you how to make quaternary salt. As it turns out, this was not exactly a Slavic notion. In the folio it was suggested to take the purest salt, so that it "blazed with silver." It must be crushed in a mortar and kept in the house near the hearth. Remember this! Now you will see for yourself that different peoples made Thursday salt in a similar way! How to make it get magical properties, ancient writers also explained. It is necessary on a Clean Day to demolish the pot with the mineral to the Priest. That ceremony will be correct. Then take your magic salt home again. By the way, the recipes for using the product in the book practically do not differ from the modern ones. However, how to correctly make the quaternary salt is not particularly clear from the text. We will use more modern instructions. By the way, there are many of them. Each village added its own ingredients to the salt.

What you need to know and remember

Before starting the ceremony, you need to prepare well. When figuring out how to make quaternary salt, pay attention to the subtleties and nuances. Although there are rules common to all recipes. The invariable rule is that there is only one day in the year when the ritual can be performed. It is Thursday, that is, this time before Easter. For the ceremony you will need a pack of salt. It should be the most ordinary, large. You will also need to think about how you will warm it up. This is the most important condition under which any Thursday salt is prepared. How to make it in a modern apartment, where there is no stove, and you can't light a fire? We will consider this a little below. Savvy people have come up with ways for all occasions. There are no obstacles that would prevent a stubborn person from receiving this magical remedy.

Flour recipe

Describing further how to make quaternary salt, we will no longer talk about the mineral itself. Let's agree that in any case, a kilogram pack of large ones is involved in the ceremony. For this method, you will also need rye flour. Prepare her with a dozen tablespoons. The two ingredients must be poured onto. Put it on fire. Say this: “Maundy Thursday of the Lord! Free and save from every reptile and ailment for all times! " It is necessary to heat the mixture until the flour turns completely black. Stir it only with a wooden spoon! This should be remembered tightly! Not everyone who tells how to make quaternary salt themselves pays attention to this nuance. And the magic agent should come into contact with the tree. As soon as the flour turns black, turn off the heat. Pour the cooled product into a linen bag.

Recipe with leavened grounds

This method is old, so to speak, real. Kvass grounds are now replaced with rye flour. But in fact, in the villages, they prepared the remedy with her. If you visit relatives in the outback, ask yourself how to make black Thursday salt. The recipe, as a rule, will feature leavened dough.

And the method is not particularly different from the first. Preheat a skillet or other thick-walled cookware. Add salt and grounds. Stir with a wooden spatula or spoon. Say the words the same as above. As it turns black, cool. You can store the product not only in a linen bag, but also in glass. Only the jar needs to be tightly sealed.

Cooking in the oven

You understand that in the past, food was heated in the oven. Therefore, today's stoves only vaguely resemble the way that was customary in the old days. Some sources write that it is necessary to cook a magic remedy in the oven, so it will be "for real". Maybe so. But this recipe is somewhat different from those already given. In general, when figuring out how to make black quaternary salt, try to read as much as you can about it. Information is never superfluous. Moreover, it was compiled on the wisdom and ingenuity of many generations of our ancestors. Everyone tried to contribute something of their own. It is clear that they then tracked their "innovations", leaving only the most successful for posterity. This method requires a container with thick walls. Salt is put in it and soaked in a ratio of one to five. The container is placed in a preheated oven (at least 250 degrees). There it should be heated until blackened. This will take several hours. Please note that the ritual must be completed before the end of Thursday!

How to make flour-free quaternary salt

It is proposed to reproduce an old recipe. For example, Kostroma. In the villages of this province even now they tell how to make quaternary salt at home, of course, considering it the most correct. This requires not only leavened dough. Aromatic herbs are also added to the mixture. Namely mint with oregano. They must be prepared in advance or purchased from a pharmacy. Take a hundred grams of herbs per kilogram of salt. Line the roasting pan with the cabbage leaves and place the mixture on top. Keep in the oven until blackening. You will end up with a solid piece. It will need to be crushed and sieved. The salt will turn out to be fragrant, extraordinary! Such only smell already heals. Even the doctors who examined it did not find any shortcomings in the remedy, sheer advantages. They say it is enriched with minerals useful for the body without any magic. Potassium and phosphorus, calcium and iodine, magnesium and chromium were found in it. Use it to your health!

Old recipe

And in monasteries they prepare this remedy using their own method. It is passed on "by inheritance." The method is not very suitable for the current conditions. If you are wondering how to make Thursday salt in an apartment, you will have to skip it. Read for interest. Seven birch logs were prepared in advance in the monastery. A fire was made from them. A bundle in a bast shoe was placed in it. Its contents: a mixture of salt, herbs, leavened leaves, wrapped in cabbage leaves. The bast was turned over, warming up for a long time. At the same time, the monks read the prayers that were laid on that day. Now, if you manage to get such a Thursday salt, then be sure to keep it. It helps a lot with various misfortunes.

Why do you need such a remedy?

We have already announced information on how to make Thursday salt on Maundy Thursday. Now it would be good to find out why it is actually needed. After all, it's not to keep her in a bag! Why bother so much that later you have no idea where to apply such a product. Firstly, food is flavored with it. Secondly, it is needed for treatment. Any patient is advised to drink a little water with this salt on an empty stomach. The proportions are selected according to the state of the person himself. You shouldn't force him. If he can, then let him drink a whole glass, but no, then a sip is enough. Facial cleansing with Thursday salt is useful. To do this, dissolve the spoon in a glass of water. They wash the skin with it. It is not recommended to wipe your face after this. Let the magic water be absorbed.

Do you need to consecrate quaternary salt?

Another fundamental question, a definite answer to which cannot be obtained from the outside. Whoever you ask how to make Thursday salt at home, the recipe, as a rule, ends with the Great Feast of the Lord's Passover. It is said that baking a mixture and crushing is not enough. It is also necessary to take it to the Temple and consecrate it. Remember how the ancient book describes: "The priest will conduct a ceremony over her." Most likely, this advice should be viewed through the prism of your own soul. The fact is that Thursday salt helps everyone, regardless of confessional affiliation. By the way, atheists are no exception. That is, believers will probably want to follow this part of the recipe. Atheists will say that it will do. Maybe they will also be right in their own way. After all, doctors say that this remedy is very useful even without a church service. Therefore, such a delicate question must be coordinated with the soul and one's own worldview.

Modern "modification" of recipes

Let's face it, not everyone wants to stick to the old descriptions of making Thursday salt. The current housewives have slightly revised the content of the recommendations, bringing them to the level of modern technologies. However, everyone warns that you should not use a microwave oven. It turns out not a magic remedy, but something indigestible. And it is advised to do so. Chop cabbage leaves, herbs, whatever you like. Mix everything with salt and flour. Heat over high heat until blackened. Agree, the recipe has been greatly simplified. But it contains all the necessary ingredients. Therefore, it is quite permissible to use it. Housewives also pass on information about herbs to their girlfriends. The fact is that they began to add not only mint with oregano to the mixture. Many people say that it is good to put dill there as well. Some people use very exotic herbs. Others say they cooked with everyone found at home or bought on Maundy Thursday. For example, chamomile and thyme. This salt is good for colds. And in cosmetic operations, as they say, a remedy helps, in the preparation of which aromatic oils were used. Try it yourself. After all, all the recipes were created on the basis of folk art. So why not participate in it?

The magical uses of Thursday salt

Now let's touch on the issue of using this tool for purposes other than medical. So, it is recommended, when there is no peace and quiet at home, to scatter it across all rooms and rooms. Take it in handfuls straight from the bag and throw it on the floor (like a sower). Let it lie down for three days. Then collect thoroughly with a broom (not a vacuum cleaner) on a scoop. But don't throw it away. This is extremely important! Salt, after being used in magical rites, is buried in the ground (snow). If the magic agent gets into the trash can or the sewer - it will bring the negative back into the house! Remember. They also say that it is necessary to sprinkle the bed of all households with it around the perimeter for three days too. After such a procedure, people become more calm and kind. Fears go away from them, anger dissolves. Leave the bag out the door and sprinkle the threshold. This is a defense against an evil visitor. All guests, as they step over a strip of salt, will leave bad thoughts and envy behind the threshold. If you feel the evil eye in the house, add salt in the corners. Say this: "Salt of Thursday, take evil away from my doorstep!" As you begin to do the cleaning, collect it and bury it in the ground. Small children are recommended to bathe in "salted" water. They are less capricious after that and get sick. In general, Thursday salt is an excellent and tasty remedy. Cook it yourself!

Since ancient times, black salt in Russia has been considered one of the symbols of the Bright Resurrection of Christ, along with cakes and Easter eggs. It was cooked on Holy Week on Maundy Thursday, so it is no coincidence that it is also called Thursday. It was consecrated together with Easter cakes, and the Easter egg was eaten exclusively with such salt.

Features of the preparation of black salt

It is easy to guess that the preparation of this product is based on the principle of roasting salt at a high temperature, which makes the white crystals black. There are, however, some peculiarities. There were probably more of them before, but many have been lost. What we know today is pitiful compared to the experience of our ancestors.
Previously, they began to cook it on Wednesday-Thursday night: simple rock salt was mixed with rye flour, kvass malt, sometimes with cabbage leaves, spices or aromatic herbs were added, wrapped in canvas, put in ... bast shoes and put in the oven. Under the influence of temperature, the mixture heated up and became black, fragrant and healthy.

Miracle firewood

By the way, it was believed that heating the stove when making black salt was necessary exclusively with birch firewood. Moreover, fuel for this purpose was prepared in advance: during the entire Great Lent: every Sunday a log was put aside. The people believed that the firewood prepared in this way in the cooking process gives the salt healing miraculous properties.
Of course, in a city apartment, salt cannot be cooked on wood. However, the oven will also do, and instead of malt and rye flour - Borodino bread. Here's a simple way to make black salt at home.

Black salt recipe

We need:

• 150 g of Borodino bread;
• 150 g of coarse sea salt;
• 1 tsp cumin;
• 1 tsp ground coriander;
• 70 ml of water.

Cooking steps:

1. Cut off three not too thick slices from the loaf and cut off the crust from them.
2. Cut the bread into small cubes, put it in a saucepan and pour it over with water.
3. Knead until smooth.
4. Grind sea salt into powder and pour it into the bread mass.
5. Sprinkle with caraway seeds and coriander (you can take more spices - a matter of taste), mix well.
6. Smear the bread mass in shape and put it in the oven, preheated to 250 ° C.
7. After 10 minutes, we take out the dried crumb, break it into pieces and, putting it back in the oven, wait until the crackers completely turn black. Stir from time to time so that they burn evenly.
8. In about forty minutes, when smog hangs in the kitchen, and one of the household members will come running to the kitchen shouting: “Oh, something is burning!”, We take out the blackened rusks and grind them thoroughly.

Black salt with spices is ready!

Properties of black salt

It is quite logical that salt changes not only in color during the cooking process. After heat treatment, it gets rid of the increased chlorine content and is enriched with iodine, potassium, calcium, copper, zinc, thus turning from “white death” to “black medicine”.
Due to the content of a large amount of minerals and trace elements, this product is indicated for vitamin deficiencies, mineral deficiency. It will also help people with high blood pressure because it does not raise sodium levels in the blood. In addition, this product removes toxins from the body, being an excellent absorbent. Simply put, it can be used instead of the usual activated carbon for constipation, increased gas production and to improve appetite. And if you mix two parts of honey and a part of black salt, you get an excellent drug against periodontal disease.

Since ancient times, people have learned to imbue salt with useful properties. Like bread, it was revered, the most important product for life. She was appreciated, cherished, believed in a magical cleansing power, used in treatment. Black salt is prepared by many nations. There is a historical fact confirming the validity of the calcination of salt. The famous researcher of the culture of the aborigines of Australia, Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay, told how the popuas mined salt. They soaked the pieces of wood with sea water. They were dried in the sun and burned. The resulting salted ash was crushed and used for its intended purpose.

In Ethiopia, black salt is mined from the crater of the extinct volcano El Sodo. This is black silt at the bottom of the lake. It is harvested by hand.

After washing and drying, this kind of salt, created by nature itself, remains.

In India, Kala Namak is used. Only it is reddish due to its high content of iron, calcium and magnesium.

Read about Himalayan or Indian black salt

Our Proto-Slavic tribes also poured salt over an open fire, or in a stove. Most likely, this is due to the fact that at that time salt was mined in large pieces. It is likely that it was damp inside. It is very difficult to grind such salt; after firing it is easier to process. Then they began to mix with aromatic herbs: mint, savory.

Christianity organically absorbed many Slavic traditions and processed them into Orthodox canons. And salt is one of them. First, the cabbage salt was prepared. In the fall, when chopping cabbage for pickling and pickling, it is customary to cut the top green leaves into large pieces and mix with salt. Use them as a hiding place for chopped cabbage. The cabbage ferments for several days, after which these green leaves are harvested. The young one is determined for storage. And the top salted leaves are now being thrown away, and they used to burn them. The foliage burned to a coal-like state. The mass was sieved through a sieve. The remaining salt in it takes on a pleasant aftertaste. She is considered feminine. Why? History is silent. Maybe because salting cabbage was considered a purely feminine affair. Or that she was sanctified in church on the feast of Paraskeva Friday or on Pokrov - women's holidays.

What is Thursday salt and how to prepare it?

They began to bake Thursday salt in monasteries. During Holy Week on Maundy Thursday, a monk carrying out obedience in the kitchen mixes salt with leavened milk and sends it to the oven. Kvass is necessarily present in the Lenten menu, so there are many different kinds of sourdoughs (kvass wort). make bread, beetroot, carrot. During fermentation, biologically active enzymes are formed in the wort. They enrich salt with such important substances as phosphorus, iodine, potassium, chromium, magnesium.

Rye bread of the Borodinsky type can become a substitute for the leaven.

Recipe: 1 kg. coarse rock salt. 5 loaves of Borodino bread. It needs to be soaked. Then squeeze and stir with salt. Bake at 250 degrees until black.

Sending salt for quenching over it, they pray.

Prayer over solia

God our Savior, who came to Jericho under Elisha the prophet, healed salt from harmful waters: bless this salt yourself, and offer it as a sacrifice of joy.
Thou art our God, and we send to you in glory, to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, now and forever and forever and ever, amen.

Finished salt turns black. Can be compressed. We'll have to wrap it in cloth and chop it with a hammer. Sift the burnt bread crumbs through a sieve. You don't need to throw them away. Now it is a natural carbon sorbent that perfectly replaces activated carbon and removes toxins from the body. You can mix half a teaspoon with water and drink for a preventive cleanse.

Observing Easter traditions, Thursday salt is consecrated in the church along with, dyes and. But there is a way to consecrate yourself. To do this, cover the table with a clean tablecloth. Put a full salt shaker in the center. Surround her with Easter dishes. Light a church candle and read a prayer.

On the day of the great Resurrection, colored eggs are sprinkled with Thursday salt. By the way, you can't dip it in salt. The crumbs from the product should not contaminate her. Take it with a pinch, or with a small spoon, or sprinkle it on your plate. From this custom, a rule of etiquette has been developed, which prohibits dipping anything in salt.

According to modern church regulations, Thursday black salt is prepared once and for the whole year.

But Thursday salt does not have to be prepared only in monasteries. You can do it at home too. There is a custom: on Thursday before any major Orthodox holiday, buy 4 kilograms of salt and roast it with herbs or bread in black.

The easiest way to make quaternary salt is simply to roast it in a cast iron skillet in the oven. Only coarse stone salt is suitable. She will not turn black. In addition to the ceremonial meaning, baking salt is of great practical importance. At high temperatures, and hardening occurs at 250 - 280 degrees, the most harmful compounds of chlorine and heavy metals are destroyed in salt. The harmful effect on hypertensive patients suffering from kidney disease is reduced.

Use it like regular salt. But black salt adds flavor and aroma to dishes.

Only the high sulfur content gives the specific hydrogen sulfide aroma; it gives the vegetable dishes an egg flavor and smell.

Black salt is no longer "white death". Safe for people with chronic diseases. And just delicious!

Under the influence of high temperatures in salt, the amount of harmful chlorine is significantly reduced. Usually it is associated with sodium and even with a slight overdose in the body, the potassium-sodium balance is disturbed. A lack of potassium affects the functioning of the cardiovascular system. In black salt, the amount of potassium increases, as well as selenium, calcium and other trace elements that increase its nutritional and dietary value. It retains water in the body much less, so the slimming effect is increased. Let's cook black salt with.

Since ancient times, our ancestors ate Easter eggs, sprinkling them with black salt. This salt was also called Thursday salt, as it was prepared from ordinary white salt during Holy Week on Maundy Thursday. The Slavs have long noticed that black salt has a more beneficial effect on health. And this is no coincidence. During heat treatment under the influence of high temperature, white salt with various additives changes its chemical composition, acquiring new useful properties. In the resulting black salt, the amount of sodium chloride decreases, but the amount of elements necessary for the normal functioning of the human body increases: magnesium, potassium, calcium, copper, zinc and iodine.

You can compare the chemical composition of table (white) and Thursday (black) salt according to the data in the table.

To obtain real black salt, it is necessary to anneal the white rock salt. Iodized salt is not suitable for calcination.

Salt is best calcined in a hot charcoal oven. However, in modern conditions, few people can use this method. Therefore, such an oven can be successfully replaced by an ordinary hot oven. It is worth noting that quaternary salt will not work in the microwave. So it is better to give up such an idea right away.

The preparation of Thursday salt comes down to the fact that white salt is mixed with a certain wet additive and this mixture is placed in a hot oven or oven. After that immediately 3 times in a row it is necessary to read "Our Father". Withstand salt with additives until charred. Next, take out the charred salt from the oven, cool it, finely crush it and wind it in the wind to separate the coal dust.

There are three recipes for cooking. We will tell you how to make quaternary salt in all three ways in turn.

- This method is considered the main one. In this case, prepare quaternary salt with leavened yeast. To do this, you need to take 4 parts of the kvass grounds left over from the fermentation of the wort and mix it with coarse salt. We place this mixture in a cast iron container. A cast iron skillet can be used as such a container. Place the container with the prepared mixture in a hot oven or oven until the salt is charred. Next, we proceed according to the recipe described above, that is, cool, grind and distill the finished salt. After that, put the black salt in a tightly closed container.

- According to the second recipe, black salt is prepared using herbs and rye bread. To prepare salt according to this recipe, you need to take 4 loaves of rye bread weighing 1 kg each and 4 handfuls of chopped dry herbs: dill, mint and oregano per 1 kg of salt. Soak bread in water, squeeze out excess water and knead well. Then, mix the bread with salt, herbs and put the finished mixture in a cast-iron container. Then, in a hot stove or oven, bring the salt to charring. Next, cool, grind, clean and place the prepared salt in a dry container with a tight-fitting lid.

- The third option is the preparation of black salt occurs with oatmeal. This salt was usually prepared in monasteries. To obtain black salt according to this recipe, you need to take 3 packs of oatmeal per 1 kg of ordinary salt. Soak the flakes for half an hour. Then we drain the water, knead the flakes and add salt to them. Next, we place the mixture in a cast-iron container and do everything in the same sequence as in the previous recipes.

The prepared black salt can be eaten after its consecration during the Easter service. Before going to church, salt is put in a beautiful salt shaker and placed in an Easter basket along with cakes and eggs. If it is not possible to go to the festive service, you can consecrate black salt at home by placing it in front of the icons and reading a prayer on the eve of Easter.