Name: For Packing Butter
Ingredients: 1 gallon water; 2 quarts coarse sea salt; 1 ounce sugar; 1 ounce saltpetre

For Packing Butter

Ingredients

1 gallon water
2 quarts coarse sea salt
1 ounce sugar
1 ounce saltpetre

Directions

Boil 1 gallon of water.
Add 2 quarts of coarse sea salt and stir until dissolved.
Mix in 1 ounce of sugar and 1 ounce of saltpetre.

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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For Packing Butter