Balsam Fir Salt
Intoxicating aroma, balsam fir tips mixed with outstanding salt.
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In the early spring, balsam fir evergreen trees put out new green needles, which are sweet and aromatic for only a few weeks before they darken and turn fibrous and bitter. Our balsam fir needles were hand-picked, dried and ground before being blended with Salina Crystal Salt. This seasonal finishing salt is bright, herbal and resinous, perfect for garnishing sweet and earthy vegetables, game meats and fresh seafood. Whether it's sprinkled over brownies, mixed into a medley of root vegetables, or used as a finishing salt for steamed fish or shrimp, you'll find so many uses for this special salt.
Open a jar of our Balsam Fir Salt and let the intoxicating aroma take you to the sugar maple forests of the Adirondacks in early spring. Patches of snow still dot the forest floor and the ground is squishy underfoot. Around you, Balsam fir trees are just starting to sprout their new, bright green needles and the sweet scent of fresh pine fills the warm air.
Balsam fir tips are super-seasonal and the window for harvesting them is fleeting. When the trees put out their sweet aromatic new needles, foragers only have a few weeks to pick them before they darken and turn fibrous. A group of H-2A agricultural experts from Jamaica hand-pick the delicate fir tips. These are the same folks who carefully forage our wild ramps and who tap maple trees for syrup and maintain upstate NY's extensive apple orchards.
Highlights
Saltwater is slowly dehydrated, then hand-blended with dehydrated and ground balsam fir tips
Pine needles • Hops • Forest Air
Ingredients
Salina Crystal Salt (NaCl) & hand-picked balsam fir tips (Abies balsamea)
Cooking tips
- Use as a finishing salt over shrimp or steamed fish
- Sprinkle over brownies or chocolate chip cookies
- Top rice or roasted root vegetables
- Use to salt steak
SOURCING
Our balsam fir tips were hand-picked in a sugar maple forest in NY's Adirondack mountains in the spring of 2021. This is the same forest where we harvest our Wild Ramps and where New Leaf Tree Syrups tap trees for their excellent maple, birch and other tree syrups. Omar, at left, is one of the people who worked to pick the balsam tips that went into this salt.
ABOUT SYRACUSE SALT CO.
David and Libby are the father-daughter dynamic duo making up Syracuse Salt Co. David was born and raised in the industrial town of Syracuse, NY, which sits on the edge of Onondaga Lake. The town got the nickname the "Salt City" way back in the 18th century for the salt springs found all along the shores of the lake. In fact, the massive salt deposit in the Salina shale formation (from 400+ million years ago!) made Syracuse the epicenter for salt production in the United States in the 1800s.
While mineral salt is typically mined in big blocks and ground by heavy industrial machinery, Syracuse Salt Co. gently evaporates the salty water to form crunchy cubic towers. Then, the salt is scooped up, laid out on trays to dry, and carefully sifted to preserve its perfect shape and texture.
Learn more at syracusesaltco.com
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