Name: To Preserve Eggs for Winter Use
Ingredients: 3 gallons water; 1 pint fresh slacked lime; 1 pint common salt

To Preserve Eggs for Winter Use

Ingredients

3 gallons water
1 pint fresh slacked lime
1 pint common salt

Directions

Mix the water, slacked lime, and common salt in a barrel.
Ensure the barrel is about half full.

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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To Preserve Eggs for Winter Use