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Pickle to Preserve Butter

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

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Pickle to Preserve Butter

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Dissolve the salt, saltpetre, and sugar in the water.

  2. Skim the pickle until it is clear.

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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