To Pickle Salmon

Ingredients

• 12 pounds salmon
• 1 red pepper
• 3 quarts vinegar
• 1 pint boiling water
• 2 onions sliced
• 20 cloves
• 3 sticks mace
• 3 tablespoons whole mustard
• 3 tablespoons brown sugar

Method

1. 1

   Clean the salmon, rub with salt, boil for fifteen minutes per pound.

2. 2

   Drain, roll in cloth to dry, then skin.

3. 3

   Boil spices in vinegar and water, add salmon and boil for five minutes.

4. 4

   Pack in jars with boiling liquor.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Queen Cook Book: A Careful Compilation of Recipes and Practical ... (1895) by William Hart Boyd, page 34. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

To Pickle Salmon. 1 2 pounds salmon i red pepper 3 quarts vinegar 1 5 pepper corns 1 pint boiling water 3 bay leaves 2 onions sliced 3 tablespoons whole mus- 20 cloves tard 3 sticks mace 3 tablespoons brown sugar

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