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To Preserve Eggs

This method preserves eggs by soaking them in a salt and lime solution for three days.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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To Preserve Eggs

Ingredients

Directions

Make the brine

  1. Mix 3 gallons of water, 1 pint of coarse sea salt, and 2 pints of fresh lime in a stone jar.

  2. Let the mixture stand for 3 days, stirring it daily.

Preserve the eggs

  1. After 3 days, pour off the liquid and use it to cover the eggs in a container.

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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Coarse sea salt
Salt draws moisture out of the eggs and slows spoilage microbes, helping preserve them.

“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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