With salt he cured meat (6)
I believe the answer is:
haslet
'meat' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both things that one consumes for nourishment as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?
'with salt he cured' is the wordplay.
'with' says to put letters next to each other.
'cured' indicates an anagram.
'salt'+'he' is 'salthe'.
'salthe' is an anagram of 'HASLET'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for haslet that I've seen before include "Offal dish" , "Meat product" , "Chopped pork offal" , "Kind of meal loaf, eaten cold (6)" , "cooked meat loaf" .)