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Beef Pickle

Contains saltpetre, which may pose food safety risks.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Beef Pickle

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Combine spring water, saltpetre, alum salt, brown sugar, and potash in a large container.

  2. Stir until all ingredients are dissolved.

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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