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to salten

to salten

9.9
To add salt to food, often to preserve or flavor it
  • verb
  • Archaic
translation icon : salpimentar
  • In medieval kitchens, cooks would salten fish to preserve it for winter months.

Examples

  • Before refrigeration, it was common practice to salten meat after slaughter.

  • Old instructions advised people to salten their butter to keep it fresh longer.

  • He decided to salten the meat for preservation.

  • Why do you salten your food so much?

  • In medieval kitchens, cooks would salten fish to preserve it for winter months.

  • Old instructions advised people to salten their butter to keep it fresh longer.

  • Before refrigeration, it was common practice to salten meat after slaughter.

Synonyms

to season
vsto salten
43 1.7

To add salt, herbs, or spices to food

focuses more on preservation or heavy seasoning rather than general flavoring
to salt
vsto salten
31 1.0

To put small white crystals on food to make it taste better or last longer

is the archaic form used instead of this modern verb
to brine
vsto salten
8 4.8

To soak food in very salty water to keep it and add flavor

uses direct addition of the seasoning rather than a soaking method
to corn
vsto salten
8 9.0

To preserve meat by using salt

applies more widely to foods and to simple flavoring as well
to salinate
vsto salten
  • Specialized
1 7.2

To make something salty by adding salt

is the common culinary practice rather than a technical chemical process
to salinize
vsto salten
  • Specialized
7.5

To preserve food by adding salt so it lasts longer

is the everyday or older verb for that preservation action
to dun
vsto salten
  • Archaic
9.9

To keep meat or fish from spoiling by salting

is broader, covering general adding of seasoning not only curing meat

Surface Forms

salten infinitive
salted past
salting present participle

Morphology

salten = salt (semi-transparent) = salt + en

The meaning is clear from 'salt', but the archaic -en ending is no longer productive in modern English.

Etymology

Salten comes from the simple word salt plus an old verb ending -en that means 'to make'. So salten means 'to add salt' to food, often to preserve or flavour it, which is why cooks used it to keep meat or fish for a long time.