Gathering things for a long trip to the forest is a troublesome and stressful business, often, after spending several days on it, travelers still forget something they need. In the forest, you can get fish or game, but without salt the food will turn out to be fresh, so it is worth trying to get this necessary substance.
It is necessary
- - hazel;
- - oxalis;
- - salt marsh.
Instructions
Step 1
In the forest, salt can be obtained from wood ash. For this, you better take hardwoods, the ideal option is hazel. Burn dry logs and branches in a fire to ash.
Step 2
Pour it into a large pot and cover with warm boiled water, stir well. This mixture should stand long enough - 3-4 hours or overnight. Taste the solution. It should be salty.
Step 3
Add it to meals or evaporate it. To do this, carefully drain the top layer and put on fire. You will be left with a dry sludge in the form of sand. This substance can "salt" food.
Step 4
In May in the forest, look for common sour cherry, it is also borshchovka or hare salt. Quite dense clusters of this plant can be found near the trunks of mature fir trees, in shady and humid places.
Step 5
This herb has no stems, thick heart-shaped leaves grow immediately from the roots. A pinch of acid can replace not only salt, but also tea leaves, lemon, vinegar. That is, during the hike, this find will greatly enrich the taste of your food.
Step 6
To get salt crystals, you need to evaporate the sour juice. The plant blooms from late spring to early summer. Kislitsa completely spreads all its three leaves when the sun's rays do not fall on it. In hot weather, the grass withers.
Step 7
Salt marshes can also be found in the forest. These will be places with low fertility, there grow wormwood, hodgepodge, prutnyak, sucker, tamarix. The roots of grasses in salt marshes are covered with a white bloom.
Step 8
In such a place you need to dig a well, the water in it will be salty. It can be evaporated to get the substance you need.
Step 9
Or pour half a bucket of saline soil and fill it with water, stir thoroughly. When the solution is infused, carefully pour out the water, and discard the soil. Add new earth to the bucket and fill it with old salt water. When you get a concentrated solution, evaporate it and get salt.
