Blackthorn Sea Salt 5g
This little pocket pinch box slips into a rucksack lid or lunchbox with ease. It holds precisely enough crunchy, unrefined Scottish sea salt flakes to season two or three meals on the move. Ready to pull it out to crumble over a pub ploughman’s or fish and chips on a sea wall.
A sensible piece of pocket utility for anyone who takes everyday eating seriously. Zero plastic, completely recyclable, and banishes the blandness of unseasoned food when you're on the road.
Origin: Ayr, Scotland
Weight: 5g net
Ingredients: 100% Scottish thorn-tower sea salt flakes
Packaging: Pocket-sized plastic-free card slide box
Blackthorn Salt
On the Ayrshire coast, on a road still called Saltpans Road, a nod to the ancient salt pan houses that once stood there. If you go visit, you will see a 30-foot tower of blackthorn branches rising against the Scottish sky. Seawater from the West Coast trickles slowly down through the thorns, using low-energy evaporation to make rich brine that is then carefully harvested into crystals.
Master salters Gregorie and Whirly source bundles of blackthorn from local Ayrshire farms and hedgerow cuttings every few years. When they need replacing, the wood is mulched back into the earth to fertilise the fields it came from.
The crystals they make are unlike any other salt in your cupboard - the kind we want to pinch between our fingers rather than hide in a grinder. It has a delicate and faintly woody flavour that has already won a three-star Great Taste Award and is now used by our friends at The Long Table in Cirencester.
