Name: To Render Boiled Fish Firm
Ingredients: ¼ ounce saltpetre; 1 gallon water; salt

To Render Boiled Fish Firm

Ingredients

¼ ounce saltpetre
1 gallon water
salt

Directions

Add the saltpetre and salt to the water before boiling the fish.
Use a small amount of saltpetre, about ¼ ounce for 1 gallon of water.

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 Render Boiled Fish Firm