Name: Beef Pickle
Ingredients: four gallons spring water; four ounces saltpetre; six pounds alum salt; half pounds brown sugar; one ounce of potash

Beef Pickle

Ingredients

Directions

Four gallons spring water, four ounces saltpetre, six pounds alum salt, one and a half pounds brown sugar, and one ounce of potash.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

49Calories

0 gProtein

0 gFat

13 gCarbs

Counts 2 of 3 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 2 portions

Ingredient	Portion assumed	kcal
Sugar	1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated	49
Salt	1 tsp (6g)	0
Water	not in our table	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.