10,000 salt recipes

German pancake batter baked in a bread pan and topped with sliced apples or savory pork cracklings. Dust fruit version with sugar or salt the crackling one for traditional flavor.

Simple couscous with raisins and butter, ready in under 10 minutes. Just boil water, stir in couscous and raisins, cover, and let it steam. Five ingredients, no fuss.

Pate sucree is the classic French sweet shortcrust pastry for tarts, with butter, sugar, egg, and flour. A buttery, slightly crisp shell that holds custards, fruit, and chocolate beautifully.

Creamed cucumbers boil cucumbers tender, then toss in a paprika-spiked béchamel of butter, flour, and milk. A vintage Scandinavian-leaning side dish for fish and roast pork.

Classic French choux pastry with just water, butter, flour, and eggs. The foundation for cream puffs, eclairs, profiteroles, gougeres, and savory gnocchi. Master this one dough, make dozens of desserts.

Saebrei is a traditional German skillet dish of flour cooked in butter until a golden crust (Schuepet) forms on the bottom, topped with browned onions in clarified butter.

New Zealand salmon steaks poached in foil with lemon and butter, chilled until the natural juices set into jelly, then served cold with warm Hollandaise sauce.

A 3-ingredient strawberry jelly made with lemon-flavored gelatin and frozen strawberries. No cooking, no canning, and it sets in the fridge in about 2 hours.

Creamy zucchini soup blended with sour cream, toasted cumin, and salt. A no-cook chilled soup with just four ingredients that turns summer zucchini into something elegant.

Salsa verde, a Mexican-style green salsa blended from tangy tomatillos, fresh cilantro, onion and serrano chile. A bright, no-cook tomatillo salsa ready in minutes for tacos, eggs and chips.

Ginger-peach compound butter with fresh minced peach and ginger folded into sweetened butter. Spread for scones, biscuits, pancakes, or warm bread, ready in 10 minutes.

Osas are classic South Indian dosas: thin, crisp rice-and-lentil crepes made from a naturally fermented batter of rice and urad dal. Vegan, gluten-free, and golden with lacy, reddish-brown edges.

Khao Niaow Ma Muang: steamed glutinous rice soaked in sweetened coconut milk and topped with ripe sliced mango. Thailand's most beloved dessert, made from just 5 ingredients.

Pressure cooker chicken stock: a golden, flavor-packed homemade broth in 15 minutes of pressure time. Chicken parts, onion, carrot, celery, and a splash of sherry make stock richer than any carton.

Traditional Ukrainian fermented beet juice made with just beets, salt, water, and a slice of sourdough bread. Tangy, earthy, and ruby-red after one to two weeks of natural fermentation.

Lemon pressed cabbage is a quick Japanese-style pickle: savoy cabbage, cloud ear mushrooms, and thin lemon slices salted and weighted for an hour into a crunchy, refreshing side.