Name: To Pickle Beef and Tongue
Ingredients: 2 gallons water; 3 pounds coarse sea salt; 1 ounce saltpetre; 1 pound sugar or 1 pint molasses

To Pickle Beef and Tongue

Ingredients

2 gallons water
3 pounds coarse sea salt
1 ounce saltpetre
1 pound sugar or 1 pint molasses

Directions

Boil the water, salt, saltpetre, and sugar or molasses together.
Skim the mixture and let it cool.
Pour the cooled brine over the meat.

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 Pickle Beef and Tongue