All month long, we'll be featuring homemade gifts and treats that you can create for your friends and family this holiday season. Today's offering is a jar of rosemary scented kosher salt and it couldn't be easier to make. Fill a canning jar half full with kosher salt and then tuck several sprigs of fresh rosemary down into the salt. Fill the jar the rest of the way up and then let it sit at least overnight (but a week or so is even better). Prior to gifting, remove the original rosemary and pop in some fresh sprigs to ensure maximum scent.
When you go to wrap the jars, tie an additional sprig of fresh rosemary on with a ribbon or some twine to make it even prettier.
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12-02-2008 @ 12:02PM
Luis Antonio said...
This is a great idea, a nice looking bowl, some salt and some herbage --> gifting on the cheap :)... although I'd give the first batch of rosemary a good beating with the back of a knife so you'll get maximum extraction.
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12-02-2008 @ 12:54PM
Big John said...
I'm excited for this series, I might even make this on my own for myself!
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12-02-2008 @ 12:56PM
dr.ellen said...
Can you use dried rosemary? My rosemary plants went crazy this year and I had to bring them in and dry them before the snow ravaged them. I have tons of heavenly dried rosemary.
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12-02-2008 @ 12:57PM
Marisa McClellan said...
Dr. Ellen, you could use dried rosemary, although you'd need to add a whole bunch more to get the same effect.
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12-02-2008 @ 6:38PM
Henry Lumbard said...
Does this flavor the salt or only give it scent?
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12-10-2008 @ 5:01PM
Burk Murray said...
Works even faster if you heat the salt in a saucepan first - there's no need to "age" it.
This stuff is outrageously good on Tuscan Potatoes: http://burkcooks.blogspot.com/2007/08/tuscan-potatoes.html
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