dry-salt
to cure or preserve (meat, hides, etc.) by drying and salting.
Origin of dry-salt
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How to use dry-salt in a sentence
If you have many, or the weather is warm, they keep better in pickle than dry salt.
Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 | Barkham BurroughsEvery one knows how different is the taste of fresh, dry salt, from that of salt in a dissolved state.
Cottage Economy | William CobbettThe cheese is salted by rubbing dry salt on the surface or soaking the cheese in brine.
The Book of Cheese | Charles Thom and Walter Warner FiskKitty throws herself back in the dry salt-grass with which the whole of our little peninsula is bedded.
A Touch Of Sun And Other Stories | Mary Hallock FooteWhen you dry salt for the table, do not place it in the salt-cells until it is cold, otherwise it will harden into a lump.
Mrs. Hale's Receipts for the Million | Sarah Josepha Hale
British Dictionary definitions for dry-salt
to preserve (food) by salting and removing moisture
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