Name: To Cure Hams and Bacon
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 pickle of ten pounds of salt; 2 pounds of brown sugar; 2 ounces of saltpetre; 1 ounce of red pepper; 4 to four and a half gallons of water; 1 brine to float a fresh egg high enough; 1 tub; 1 vessel over the fire; 10 minutes; 5 or six weeks; 2 to three weeks; 2 weeks

Original Recipe

For each hundred pounds of hams, make a pickle of ten pounds of salt, two pounds of brown sugar, two ounces of saltpetre, one ounce of red pepper, and from four to four and a half gallons of water, or just enough to cover the hams, after being packed in a water-tight vessel, or enough salt to make a brine to float a fresh egg high enough, that is to say, out of water. First rub the hams with common salt and lay them into a tub. Take the above ingredients, put them into a vessel over the fire, and heat it hot, stirring it frequently; remove all the scum, allow it to boil ten minutes, let it cool and pour over the meat. After laying in this brine five or six weeks, take out, drain and wipe, and smoke from two to three weeks. Small pieces of bacon may remain in this pickle two weeks, which would be sufficient.

1

For each hundred pounds of hams, make a pickle of ten pounds of salt, two pounds of brown sugar, two ounces of saltpetre, one ounce of red pepper, and from four to four and a half gallons of water, or just enough to cover the hams, after being packed in a water-tight vessel, or enough salt to make a brine to float a fresh egg high enough, that is to say, out of water.
2

First rub the hams with common salt and lay them into a tub.
3

Take the above ingredients, put them into a vessel over the fire, and heat it hot, stirring it frequently; remove all the scum, allow it to boil ten minutes, let it cool and pour over the meat.
4

After laying in this brine five or six weeks, take out, drain and wipe, and smoke from two to three weeks.
5

Small pieces of bacon may remain in this pickle two weeks, which would be sufficient.

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