Name: To Preserve Eggs for Winter Use
Ingredients: 1 gallon cold water; 1 pint coarse sea salt; 1 pint unslacked lime

To Preserve Eggs for Winter Use

Ingredients

1 gallon cold water
1 pint coarse sea salt
1 pint unslacked lime

Directions

Make the brine

Mix the cold water, coarse sea salt, and unslacked lime in a stone jar.
Let the mixture stand for 24 hours.

Preserve the eggs

Once ready, add the eggs to the mixture all at once or gradually.

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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Coarse sea salt: Draws moisture out and slows microbial growth, helping to preserve the eggs.
Unslacked lime: Makes the brine strongly alkaline, which helps preserve the eggs.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.