Recipe for Salt dough for modelling

Salt dough

 

This is a very simple but extremely efficient and effective way of modelling instead of clay.

We made Christmas ornaments, crib figures and animals and wreaths and flowers from it.

It is suited for hanging objects or little sculptures.

 

You only need

 

flour

and more cooking salt than you use flour

water

 

If you like to make multi-coloured objects, you can add food colouring, like we did in red and green and white or

you can use in addition or instead a mixture of spices like paprika, nutmeg and cinnamon and cocoa for colouring

and cloves, bayleaves and staranis seed for decoration. I once made characters and wreaths over twenty years ago

and they still look like I made them only yesterday.

 

Simply kneed the flour with the salt and water until the texture gets smooth and soft but still firm. Let it rest for about

an hour and kneed again to let it soften a bit more.

There are the same possibilities with this dough as with clay.

 

Let it bake at a low temperature like ca. 150 / gas 4 for several hours to get the moisture out. The longer it is in the oven

the better.

 

Enjoy! But do not be tempted to eat it...

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