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To Dry-Salt and Pickle Meat

This is best performed by well rubbing the meat with a mixture of salt, 2 pounds; saltpetre, 2 ounces; and moist sugar 14 ounces, till every crevice is thoroughly penetrated, after which it should be set aside till the next day, when it should be covered with fresh salt in such parts as require it. It may then be

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