Name: Brine for Boiling Fish
Ingredients: 4 ounces fine common salt (or 5-6 ounces for cod, lobster, crabs, prawns, and shrimps; 8 ounces for salmon); 1 gallon water

Brine for Boiling Fish

Ingredients

4 ounces fine common salt (or 5-6 ounces for cod, lobster, crabs, prawns, and shrimps; 8 ounces for salmon)
1 gallon water

Directions

Mix 4 ounces of fine common salt with 1 gallon of water for small fish.
For cod, lobster, crabs, prawns, and shrimps, use 5 to 6 ounces of salt.
For salmon, use 8 ounces of salt.
Ensure the water is well skimmed from the moment scum begins to form.

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.