Name: Lime Water for Eggs
Ingredients: 2 gallons of water; 1 pint of coarse sea salt; 1 pint of unslacked lime

Lime Water for Eggs

Ingredients

2 gallons of water
1 pint of coarse sea salt
1 pint of unslacked lime

Directions

Prepare the lime water by mixing 2 gallons of water with 1 pint of coarse sea salt and 1 pint of unslacked lime.
Let the mixture sit for at least one day before adding the eggs.

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.