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To Pickle Fork

From The household gas cookery book, 1900

Serves 10

A leg of pork weighing 7 to 8 lbs. should be salted in 7 days.

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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As published

This recipe was extracted from The household gas cookery book (1900) by Helen Edden, page 127. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

To Pickle Fork. Take one pound and a half of Demerara sugar, & lb. of saltpetre, and 4 ozs. of ordinary salt

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