Name: To Corn Beef
Ingredients: 6 gallons of water; 10 lbs of coarse sea salt; 2½ oz of saltpetre; 3 lbs of sugar or 1 quart of molasses; ½ oz of baking soda

To Corn Beef

Ingredients

Directions

Boil the water and add the coarse sea salt, saltpetre, sugar (or molasses), and baking soda.
Skim off any impurities that rise to the surface.
This brine will cover about 100 lbs of beef.

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.