@dnc This recipe is for 100 lbs of meat (appears to be geared for bacon and hams)
7 or 8 lbs of salt
2 lbs brown sugar
1 ounce of potassium nitrate (saltpeter)
1 oz black pepper
1 oz baking soda
Mix well - put meat in dry mixture. Pack meat in jar and place weight on top (I think they mean a large crock with ceramic weights like for making brine pickles)
Dissolve leftover mixture in water - pour a pailful of this over the contents in the crock to cover the meat.
@dnc Not really easy, because my English isn't very good.
7 or 8 (What is # in measuring?) Salt, according to savor of salt
2# dark brown sugar
1 oz ?!
1 oz black Pepper or 1 Table spoon
1 oz bakery Soda
Mix well, rub meat in dry mixture
pack meat in Jar and place weight on top.
what mixture you have left dissolve in water a (?) should cover the meat.
Remove (?) bacon ?? in 3 weeks +smoke.
Hams can remain 6 weeks then smoke. watch your time for ??
@dnc Here's my cursive-to-text translation. Capitalization as in original.
100# Mesh
7# or 8# Salt according to savor of salt
2# Dark Brown Sugar
1 oz Salt Petre or 1 table Spoon
1 oz Block [sic] Pepper or " " "
1 oz Baking Soda or " " "
Mix well + rub mesh in dry mixture
Pack mesh in jar and place weight on top -
What mixture you have left dissolve in water a pail full should cover the mesh
Remove bacon strips in 3 weeks + smoke
Haws (?) can remain 6 weeks, then smoke
Watch your brine for scum
that's how I read it- the writer probably meant black pepper, not block pepper.
Haws probably means hocks
Each " indicates: same word as above, so the line would read as "1 oz block pepper or 1 table spoon" ( currently that would be written as: 1 tablespoon)
@Chip_Unicorn@dnc oh and the hashtag sign # was pretty commonly called "the pound sign" back in the day, so they are calling for pounds of salt and dark brown sugar.
**BUT it's different for the mesh- (which we now usually call "cheesecloth") the #100 means how coarse the weave is.
@dnc
I know you have to go ⬆️ to the link to see the original post, but my random comment for Mastodon community is, people really can't read this #recipe for curing bacon?
I mean the writing is a little crabbed, but I can read the whole thing readily. I know they don't teach #cursive in school any more, but I don't know when they stopped.
"Watch your brine for scum" is a great tag line regardless. 😂
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