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Ebnewing Pork Brine

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Ebnewing Pork Brine

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Remove pork from the brine and wash each piece in clean water.

  2. Boil the brine for 30 minutes, skimming off any scum and impurities.

  3. Thoroughly clean the barrel with hot water and hard wood ashes.

  4. Sprinkle the pork with a little fresh salt and return it to the barrel.

  5. Pour the cooled brine back over the pork.

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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