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Preserving Skins with Hair On

From Recipes for the million, 1891

Serves 1

This method makes the skin soft and pliable.

Presented as published in 1891. 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 Recipes for the million (1891), page 201. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Soak the skin in water for one day, then clean it well of fat ; next take alum, three pounds ; rock salt, four ounces

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