Name: To Cure Shad
Ingredients: 100 shad; ½ pound saltpetre; 2 pounds brown sugar; rock salt

To Cure Shad

Ingredients

100 shad
½ pound saltpetre
2 pounds brown sugar
rock salt

Directions

Clean the shad thoroughly and lay them open with the backs down.
Sprinkle each fish generously with ground salt and let them stand for 24 hours to draw out the blood.
Wipe the fish dry with clean napkins.
Layer the fish in a clean tub with the backs down.
For 100 shad, mix ½ pound of saltpetre and 2 pounds of brown sugar.
Strew rock salt over the fish along with the saltpetre and sugar.

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.