Brine
Ingredients
- 6 l Water
- 6 kg Cooking salt
- 50 g Saltpeter
- 100 g Sugar
Instructions
- For 25 kilograms of meat, boil 6 liters of water with 6 kilograms of cooking salt, 50 grams of saltpeter, and 100 grams of sugar.
- Let the brine boil until an egg placed in it for testing floats.
Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.
Get the whole cookbook – free in the app
Over 1,200 recipes from the Historical Cookbook, offline in the Genuss Planer app: browse, add to your weekly plan, auto-generate your shopping list.
Open free in the app