Mola salsa

"Mola" means "mill", "millstone", and by extension, "flour".

"Salsa" is the matching bit of the adjective "salsus" meaning "salted".

So "mola salsa" is "salted flour".

BUT

Just as mola means flour *by extension*, so too could we conjecture that cakes made from mola salsa would bear the same name.

I suggest that "mola salsa" can mean "salted flour" AND the cakes made from it.

For our honored ancestors, fully aware of the uses, there would have been no confusion. When we read of mola salsa "sprinkled" I imagine the salted grain. If it is "offered", it could be either, I suppose. I suggest that we have to look at the sources and see what light can be shed.