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Brine

From A guide to modern cookery, 1909

Serves 25

Allow eight days for salting large pieces of beef.

Presented as published in 1909. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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Method

As published

This recipe was extracted from A guide to modern cookery (1909) by A. Escoffier, page 44. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

BRINE Quantities Required for Fifty Quarts. 56 lbs. of gray salt. 6 Ibs. of saltpetre. 50 quarts of water. 34 Ibs. of brown sugar

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