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Pickled Sprats

From The household gas cookery book, 1900

Serves 8

The sprats can be fried in butter and served on toast or pounded to paste and covered with clarified butter.

Presented as published in 1900. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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Ingredients

Method

As published

This recipe was extracted from The household gas cookery book (1900) by Helen Edden, page 34. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Half a pound ot salt, half a pound of bay-salt, and a tablespoonful ot white sugar, an ounce of saltpetre, and a pinch of cochineal

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