Specification of Alexander Cockburn : curing salmon.

  • Alexander Cockburn
Date:
1855
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Specification of Alexander Cockburn : curing salmon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Jeffereys, Extra. Cockburn s Method of Curing Salmon. Take for pickle to boil a salmon of twenty pounds weight, a quarter of an ounce of cloves, a quarter of an ounce of mace, a quarter of an ounce of comon pepper, to put into three gallons of water mixed with one gallon of vinegar and four pints of salt. The salmon to be put into the pickle when boiling, and well skimm’d; the salmon to boil forty-five minuets. For 5 pickle to put upon salmon when cold, the composition is as follows, viz*: a gallon of vinegar, one quart of spring water, and a gill of salt, with half an ounce of cloves, half an ounce of mace, and half an ounce of common pepper, to boil thirty minuets, and be put into a vessell to stand until quite cold before it is put upon the salmon. r In witness whereof, I, the said Alexander Cockburne, have hereunto sett my hand and seal, this Seventeenth day of August, in the third year of the reign of His said Majesty King George the Third, and in the year of our Lord One thousand seven hundred and sixty-three. ALEX, (l.s.) COCKBURN. 15 Signed, sealed,and delivered, being first duly stampt, in the presence of us, the words (date the twenty-ninth) and also the words (the manner) being first interlined. WM Jefferys, Junr. John Thompson. AND BE IT REMEMBBEB, that the Seventeenth day of August, in the year of our Lord 1763, the aforesaid Alexander Cockburn came before our said Lord the King in His Chancery, and acknowledged the Specification 25 aforesaid, and all and every thing therein contained and specified, in form above written. Also the Specification aforesaid was stampt according to the tenor of the Statute made in the sixth year of the reign of the late King and Queen William and Mary of England, and so forth. In rolled the Twenty-third day of August, in the year of our Lord One 30 thousand seven hundred and sixty-three. 1 nnted by George Edward Eyre and William Spottiswoode i rinters to the Queen's most Excellent Majesty. 1855.
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