Name: To Cure Shad
Ingredients: one pound saltpetre; one pound brown sugar; salt

To Cure Shad

Ingredients

one pound saltpetre
one pound brown sugar
salt

Directions

Strike the shad as you would herrings, then put it on a board, with a stone on it to press it down. Let them remain three days, then take them out aud wash them in brine. Drain them well. To every hundred shad add one pound saltpetre, one pound brown sugar, mixed well together with as much alurn salt as you think proper. In packing put alternate layers of shad and salt.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

49Calories

0 gProtein

0 gFat

13 gCarbs

What these numbers assume: 2 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By Gibson, Marietta Fauntleroy Hollyday, "Mrs. C. H. Gibson.". 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. See the original page.