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Pickle for Corn Beef

This recipe contains saltpetre, which should be used with caution.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Pickle for Corn Beef

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a large container, combine the water, coarse sea salt, sugar, and saltpetre.

  2. Stir until the salt and sugar are fully 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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