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Preserving Butter

From The white ribbon cook book, 1894

Serves 20

Butter improves with keeping but must be securely covered.

Presented as published in 1894. 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 white ribbon cook book (1894) by Kathryn Armstrong, page 123. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Preserving" Butter — Two lbs. of commoD salt, 1 lb. loaf-sugar, and 1 lb. saltpetre. Beat the whole well together, then to 14 lbs. of bntte

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