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Pickled Medium

This recipe uses saltpetre, which may pose food safety risks.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 6 ingredients
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Pickled Medium

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil the water, white salt, rock salt, sugar, and saltpetre together for 15 minutes.

  2. Pound the spices well and pour boiling water over them.

  3. Cover the mixture until it cools, then strain the infusion.

  4. Add the pickled articles to the infusion when it is cold.

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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