Show If making faking brine brina for beet beef heeln seeing an inquiry in the rural for a recipe for making a brine for beef to keep it through gh summer I 1 s nd you mine which I 1 have hav found to answer pack your beef close into the barrel barrei then take three ounces of saltpetre salt petre ten pounds of bail balt and twelve quarts 0 of water for ever every eveny one hundred pou pounds ads of beef put these in into 0 your ketie ket ie and boll boil until will wiil di sohei sorel itel itei then pour on boiling hot upon the beef cover the barrel close to keep in the steam if you want to dry any portion you can I 1 ace ale it out of the he I 1 brine in forty eight hours and hang up p in the spring take out the beef and cleanse the brine adding one half the original quantity of salt and saltre salt petre and as much water as 88 will cover the beef when repacked letting the brine stand until cold before pouring it on the beer beef robert douglas Tulle county N Y 1861 1851 |