10,000 salt recipes

Classic 4-ingredient butter shortbread with a sandy, melt-in-your-mouth crumb. Just butter, sugar, flour, and salt baked to pale gold. The quintessential teatime cookie from Bon Appetit, ready in 30 minutes.

Four-ingredient cookie crust with butter, flour, and sugar pressed into a sheet pan. Golden, buttery base for bars, cheesecakes, and dessert squares.

Classic British teatime shortbread cookies with just four ingredients: butter, sugar, flour, and salt. Buttery, crumbly, and pale golden with the traditional fork-pricked tops.

Olive oil pie crust pressed straight into the pan with no rolling required. A simple, dairy-light Mediterranean-leaning pastry that mixes in 10 minutes and chills firm in half an hour.

Classic four-ingredient shortbread cookies with just flour, butter, sugar, and salt. Pressed into a sheet pan, pricked with a fork, and baked until set.

Kalyan made this for us while visiting for Christmas. He called it "paravannam."

Baid masluq, a Middle Eastern spiced egg dish with sumac, marjoram, and olive oil. Hard-boiled eggs crushed with a fork and seasoned, served as a mezze appetizer.

Four-ingredient homemade crumb crust with flour, butter, cinnamon, and a pinch of salt. Mixes in 5 minutes for a buttery, lightly spiced pie base or streusel topping.

Bread machine Grape-Nut bread with applesauce for a small loaf. A simple dump-and-start recipe with a nutty, crunchy texture from Grape-Nuts cereal. Just 5 ingredients.

Buttery slow-roasted pecan halves toasted low and slow at 275°F for one hour, crispy golden snack with optional sea salt finish

Garlic buttered nuts pan-fried in butter, oil, and crushed garlic until golden and crisp. Blanched almonds and skinned peanuts finished with rock salt for a warm party snack.

Easy toasted pecans coat halves in melted margarine, oven-toast them golden, then finish with a salt sprinkle. Three ingredients, snackable in under 30 minutes, holiday gift jar ready.

Nut crust made with minced nuts, flour, margarine, and cold water for a tender, toasty pastry shell that works under savory tarts or sweet pies. A flaky pie crust alternative with a buttery crunch.

Light and crisp egg-whipped anise biscotti made with cornstarch for extra snap. Nut-free, piped from a pastry bag, and twice-baked golden. The ideal dunking cookie for coffee or tea.

Old-fashioned breakfast cake with a cinnamon-sugar streusel topping. A simple, not-too-sweet coffee cake made from pantry staples in about 40 minutes.

Soft, spiced drop cookies loaded with fruity mincemeat filling. A holiday cookie jar staple that makes 3 dozen in 30 minutes. Old-fashioned flavor your grandmother would recognize.