Homemade Celery Salt

By KimberlyB

Ingredients

• 1/4 cup salt of your choice
• 1/4 cup celery seed (or dehydrated tops, or a mixture of both)

Details

Adapted from diynatural.com

Preparation

Step 1

Place both of these in a coffee grinder or spice mill and whirl away. I make mine really fine so that it dissolves easily in soups and stews. You can make it more coarse if you like. If you don’t have a coffee grinder or spice mill, you can use a mortar and pestle.

When I get it to the desired consistency, I store part of it in a spice jar and the rest is transferred to a glass jar. Be sure to add a label with the contents and the date. (I too often forget what is in a jar and have to sniff or taste it to determine what I have.)

Commercial brands of some salts have anti-caking agents to keep them from clumping. Without this, your salt may stick together. An easy solution is to take a coffee filter or small piece of cheesecloth and place some rice in it, then tie it shut. Place this in the jar with your salts. The rice will absorb moisture and eliminate clumping.

You can add things to your mix to make it exclusively yours. Maybe some cayenne, some black pepper, or some rosemary. Just be sure that what you add is ground to the same consistency as your salt.