Name: To Keep Brawn, the Cambridge Way
Ingredients: 2 gallons water; 1 pound wheat bran; 1 pound salt

To Keep Brawn, the Cambridge Way

Ingredients

2 gallons water
1 pound wheat bran
1 pound salt

Directions

Boil water with wheat bran and salt for one hour.
When cold, strain the mixture and keep the brawn in it.
Change the pickle every ten to twelve days.

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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To Keep Brawn, the Cambridge Way