Anna and her Tasteless Salt

“It just tastes wrong” the Judge said to Anna.

Confused, Anna rushed back to the kitchen. What had she done wrong? She had followed the recipe to a T, yet even she could taste the lack of savour. Perhaps she could do it all again.

Anna started, 1 tsp of baking soda, 1 cup of all-purpose flour, 1 cup of plant based milk, 1 tsp of vanilla flavouring, 1 tbsp of sugar and 1 tsp of salt. She threw these ingredients into the mixing bowl and mixed to perfection. Once she had achieved the desired fluffiness, Anna poured the mixture into a hot saucepan and fried in batches.

She thought, perhaps she could impress the Judge with her best china set. She pulled this out and headed to the Judge’s table. Anna silently hoped they would give her a pass. This time around, the Judge pushed it away with a glaring look of disgust and said “It simply lacks salt”.

Anna did not understand. she had measured the salt just like the recipe said. With this puzzling thought in mind, she hurried into the kitchen, pulled out the salt container from the cupboard, poured some into her palm and tasted it, and she was shocked. It had no taste. She poured some more and still nothing. This was bizarre, she had only heard of salt losing its taste in the scriptures, somewhere in the book of Mathew chapter 5 verse 13 where it said : “Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? It is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men”.

Wow! This was an eye opener. Her salt had lost its saltiness, its relevance, and now it had to be thrown away. What a waste of her effort and resources.

Let’s have a look at our Lesson Plan 1 for the first week of August (2^nd to 8^th), 2020.

What exactly is cooking salt? It is a crystalline solid, usually white in colour, chiefly sodium chloride, used extensively in ground or granulated form as a food seasoning and preservative. When salt is kept in a container, it does not interact with the container, this means it retains its colour and form. However, when placed in water or food, it demonstrates its flavour and impacts the meal greatly. Salt is also a preservative, it preserves the freshness of certain foods.

By nature, salt does not lose its taste, and this is what makes the words of Jesus in Mathew Chapter 5 verse 13 very intriguing.

·       What then do we mean by ‘tasteless salt’?

·     Can we compare the changes that salt undergoes when poured into fluid with us as individuals? What exactly does this mean?

·         How do we retain our saltiness? Is this possible?

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Till my next post, keep salting the earth.

Love,

Nonye

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