Full day with locals at Salt:

Start the morning with Manaqiesh pastry making by learning about the rich agricultural ingredients of:

• organic local Sumaq,
• sesame seeds,
• olive oil,
• roasted wheat,
• roasted chickpeas,
• dry leaves of Oregano,
• herbal mix,
• Jameed powder (dry yoghurt).

Put in the mix of Zaatar and bake it in the Arabic outdoor oven. Have it as part of the first interactive breakfast meal of the day with a glass of tea at the farmer’s garden.

Holiday bread (Grass Eid):

Bake Holiday bread (Grass Eid) a traditional sweet that is made as heritage bread to celebrate the last supper of Jesus. As he cut the bread 2000 years ago before his crucifixion and that is celebrated today after olive harvest. It has so much olive oil in the recipe. Enjoy eating it fresh from the oven. Experience putting on the Salti traditional dress and hear the stories about it.

Experience making bars of soap:

After the breakfast experience making bars of soap by adding natural herbs at the Natural Soap making Garden. After you get acquainted with the natural ingredients of the soap making experience you would cut the Glycerin bar, put the shreds in another plate.

Then, the melted Glycerin will be presented to have the additives of the client choice of the preferred herb or plant like Lavander, rosemary, Aloe vera, Parsley…etc. The chosen herb mix will be added to the melted Glycerin and then will be poured in silicon moulds to have the final shape of a soap bar. The bars need 3 hours to be ready for use.

Experience bee keeping (Bee’s kingdom):

learn about the miracle of Bee’s kingdom with Jordanian Bee keeper.  you will be dressed in the Beekeeper suit and will be led to the hives by the Beekeeper to see the Bee’s Queen, bee females and males at work. Clients will listen to the story of Bee’s 6 famous products and can also taste some of these products.

After that, we will meet Jordanian farmer and her family. They will teach you how to bake whole wheat Saj bread, pick a free-range egg, milk a goat, feed a baby goat, ride the tractor. You will have fresh local made food from the farm under the 400 years old Oak tree.

The food is from “from farm to table”. The Saj bread, free range eggs, products of goat’s milk as white goat cheese, white goat butter, yoghurt.

The famous Galaieh dish of farmers (fried tomatoes with garlic in olive oil), fried eggplants with Sumaq in olive oil.

Some fried local potatoes in olive oil, some sliced veggies, pickled olives and all is presented with tea and Arabic coffee plus water.

Kunafeh:

The freshly cooked traditional famous sweet of Kunafeh; clients will watch the making of Kunafeh and how it is cooked on fire wood to be presented to them with nuts and sugar syrup.