You are looking at it backwards.

They didn't infuse salts so much as they used salts to preserve other herbs. Example: herb d'Provence, which is a number of herbs local to Provence, France, chopped into sea salt to dry it out.

The herbs don't flavor the salt, the salt dries the herbs.

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On Feb 14, 2014, at 9:05 PM, Stefan li Rous <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Yes, please. This discussion has gotten me interested in seeing if there really is a taste difference between the different salt sources.
>
> These different salts have been a recent, growing fad. Not too long ago, it was difficult to simply find sea salt.
>
> Then a number of salt samples can join my collection of different honeys (from a Pennsic merchant when he was shutting down) and various 'medieval' spices, also mostly from Pennsic.
>
> I haven't seen any evidence that medieval Europeans infused salts, but they did infuse sugar with other spices.
> flavord-sugars-msg (8K) 3/27/05 Period flavored, infused sugars.
> http://www.florilegium.org/files/FOOD-SWEETS/flavord-sugars-msg.html
>
> Stefan
>
> On Feb 14, 2014, at 12:57 PM, Ted Eisenstein <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>>>> Wow was I wrong. Its Hawaiian sea salt, and they said you can find it in
>>>> local fresh markets where they have a selection of salts.
>>
>> Oddly enough, I was in Key West a couple of days ago, and wandered into
>> a tea-and-spice shop on, hmmm, Front Street near Duval I think. They
>> had quite a selection of salts, both self-flavored (habanero salt;
>> garlic salt; triple-something salt) and naturally flavored of
>> several types, including fleur de sel, and some sort of Mediterranean
>> salt not FdS, and a few others.
>>
>> I've got their website. If anyone wants to check to see if they have
>> correct salts, ask.
>>
>> (Their business card and the website are hidden somewhere in my
>> luggage, else I'd post right now.)
>>
>> Alban
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