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To Preserve Eggs During the Winter

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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To Preserve Eggs During the Winter

Ingredients

Directions

  1. In the fall, collect your eggs.

  2. Pack them in a keg, starting with a layer of coarse sea salt at the bottom.

  3. Place a layer of eggs with the small end downwards.

  4. Add another layer of coarse sea salt.

  5. Repeat the layers until all eggs are packed.

  6. Finish with a final layer of coarse sea salt on top.

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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