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Filberts, to Preserve

A method for preserving filberts by burying them in stone jars with salt.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Filberts, to Preserve

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Obtain stone jars, approximately 2 feet high and 1 foot in diameter.

  2. Fill the jars with filberts.

  3. Cork the jars tightly with a bung.

  4. Bury the jars about 1 foot in the earth or place them in a damp wine cellar.

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

Filberts
The main ingredient, preserved whole inside the sealed jars.
Coarse sea salt
Listed in the ingredients but no step says where it is used, so its role is not stated.

“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.

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