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Knickerbocker Pickle

From The hearthstone; or, Life at home, 1883

Serves 20

This quantity will answer for one hundred pounds of meat.

Presented as published in 1883. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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As published

This recipe was extracted from The hearthstone; or, Life at home (1883) by Laura C. Holloway, page 329. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Knickerbocker Pickle. — For beef, mutton and pork. Six gallons of spring water, nine pounds of salt (one-half coarse, two and a-half finej, six pounds of coarse brown sugar, one quart of molasses, three ounces of saltpetre, one ounce of pearl-ash

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