Stock up on swift man provisions from Old Salt Merchants
A family-run nautical provisions company based in Port Townsend, Washington, Old Salt Merchants is a purveyor of fine saccharine and salty offerings. The creation of designer, caramel maker and iced-tea junkie Anika and publisher, modern-day sailor and rum-drinker Joshua, Old Salt Merchants puts a modern and romantic spin on the profession of rumrunners and sea merchants of the past.
Using the highest-quality ingredients sourced from lands as far as Cyprus, Sri Lanka and our own Australia, Old Salt Merchants stocks a range of exotic sugars, salts and teas. Tea leaves come in Tempest, Equator and Rum & Cola varietals, with the latter a heady concoction of dark rum, Ceylon black tea, sweet stevia leaf and natural citrus flavours. The Jamaican Ginger sugar involves cane sugar soaked in natural ginger, which – along with the Coconut Breeze, Lime Slice and Rum sugars – works well as both a tea sweetener, cocktail-glass rimmer and even in baking.
At the brand’s heart is a range of sea salt, from large, mild flakes harvested naturally from evaporated Mediterranean seas to Puget Sound Pacific Sea Salt cold-smoked above an Alder wood fire. Old Salt Merchants also has a bundle of recipes on its website, like pumpkin doughnuts with rum-soaked sugar and Sriracha coconut popcorn with smoked sea salt for you to try.
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