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To Make Pepsin

From The hearthstone; or, Life at home, 1883

Serves 6

This pepsin is valuable for cases of great debility.

Presented as published in 1883. 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 hearthstone; or, Life at home (1883) by Laura C. Holloway, page 123. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

To Make Pepsin. — Cut up v(try fine half a dozen pigs' stomachs »3 194 THE hearthstone; or, life at home. and macerate for ten or twelve hours in a menstruum composed of one part of muriatic acid and thirty-two parts of water; decant and macerate a second time; pour the two products together, and add common salt until no further pepsin is formed

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