Name: To Preserve Eggs
Ingredients: 1 pint coarse salt; 1 pint unslacked lime; 1 pail water

To Preserve Eggs

Ingredients

1 pint coarse salt
1 pint unslacked lime
1 pail water

Directions

Mix the coarse salt and unslacked lime in a pail of water.
Store the eggs in this solution.
Keep the container in a cool place.

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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What each ingredient does

Coarse salt: Draws moisture out and seasons the eggs while the solution preserves them.
Unslacked lime: Makes the solution strongly alkaline, which helps preserve the eggs and firm their whites.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.