To Kipper Salmon

Ingredients

• Take a large-sized salmon
• a quantity of salt and sugar
• a little saltpetre

Method

1. 1

   Clean and scale the salmon, split it, and remove the backbone.

2. 2

   Rub it with the salt, sugar, and saltpetre mixture.

3. 3

   Let it sit for two days, then stretch it flat and suspend it to dry or smoke.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Chambers's cookery for young housewives (1894) by Annie M. Griggs, page 82. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Take a large-sized salmon in good condition ; cleanse and scale it thoroughly, but do not wash it. Then split it, and take out the backbone. Rub it with a quantity of salt and sugar and a little saltpetre, according to the size of the fish, all mixed TO SALT A HAM. TO KIPPER SALMON

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.