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Storing Pickled Pigs Feet

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Storing Pickled Pigs Feet

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Cure and boil the pigs feet until half done.

  2. Split the pigs feet and place them in barrels (tierces).

  3. Fill the barrels with 60-grain vinegar and store in a cool place.

  4. Keep the top of the barrel covered with water to prevent drying.

  5. After a week in the warm place, the pigs feet will become tender.

  6. Repack the tender pigs feet in small packages with 40-grain vinegar for sale.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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