Lady Eleanora Dundas's Recipe

[ Lady Eleanora Dundas's Recipe ] Jonathan Bliss

Contributors
Contributor Role
Author
Contributor Name
Jonathan Bliss

Date: 1798/06/05

Publication Format
Manuscript

Type
Food

Ingredients
water
salt
sugar
coarse sugar
saltpeter
beef

Places
Saint John
New Brunswick

Source: Bliss Family Fonds
Institution: Nova Scotia Archives | Reference: Vol. 1604, No. 50 / Microfilm Reel 22,713

Description

In a letter to his wife Mary Bliss, Jonathan Bliss offers Lady Eleanora Dundas's directions for preparing salted beef.


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                                                              [...] -- you forgot to take Lady Eleanora Dundas's Recipe. it is --

4 Gallons of Water, 6 Pounds of Salt Dried, 2 Pounds of Coarse Sugar, 2 Ounces of Salt Peter, boil all

together and skim it; when no scum rises, and it is perfectly clear, then take it off; and when

cold pour it over your Beef -- Your friend Col. Elligood says, Pack the Beef 2 Days in Salt

to take out the Blood -- This may be more necessary in a warm Climate. He puts 6 Gal. water.

Annotations
The recipe is also found in the manuscript notebook, Lady Eleanora Dundas, Collection of Medical and Cookery Receipts, ca. 1785. Wellcome Library, Accession Number 41932, MS 2242.
The common name for potassium nitrate, saltpeter was often used in curing meat.