1.   Soya sauce A thin salty sauce used as the main condiment throughout the Far East, virtually replacing dry salt.

2.   The residue is carefully scraped and the surface is sprinkled again with dry salt which is left to stand.

3.   Below the dry salt was a layer of mud, heavy with the foul smell of sulfur.

4.   Most people know cured duck as duck confit, which is accomplished in the traditional French way by rubbing dry salt on the duck.