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Liquid Glass for Preserving Eggs

From A laboratory manual of foods and cookery, 1916

Cover the crock with tin cover or stone cover. It does not need to be air-tight. When removing eggs from the crock, do so with a spoon. Wash them carefully and, if they are to be boiled, prick the shell.

Presented as published in 1916. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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This recipe was extracted from A laboratory manual of foods and cookery (1916) by Emma B. Matteson, page 50. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

quid Glass " for Preserving Eggs Ingredients : i qt. ' liquid glass ' (a concentrated commercial solution of sodium silicate). 9 qts. boiled and cooled water

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