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To Preserve Eggs for Winter Use

This recipe uses saltpetre.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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To Preserve Eggs for Winter Use

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In a large container, mix 3 gallons of water with 1 pint of fresh slacked lime and ½ pint of common salt.

  2. Stir the mixture well until combined.

  3. Carefully place the eggs in the brine, ensuring not to break the shells.

  4. Make sure the eggs are fully covered with the brine.

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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