Name: Beef Pickle
Ingredients: 8 gallons of water; 9 pounds of coarse sea salt; 4 pounds of sugar; 4 ounces of saltpetre; 3 pints of clean wood ashes

Beef Pickle

Ingredients

Directions

Rub the beef well with fine salt.
Let the beef sit for 24 hours to cleanse it from the blood.
In a large container, combine water, salt, sugar, saltpetre, and wood ashes.
Mix well until the salt and sugar are dissolved.

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.