To make Anchovies

The Art Of Cookery · Hannah Glasse · 1747
Source
The Art Of Cookery
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Ingredients (6)
Instructions (6)
  1. Pound all ingredients in a mortar.
  2. Put them into a stone pot, a row of sprats, a layer of your compound, and so on to the top alternately.
  3. Press them hard down.
  4. Cover them close.
  5. Let them stand six months.
  6. They will be fit for use.
Original Text
To make Anchovies. TO a peck of sprats, two pounds of common salt, a quarter of a pound of bay-salt, four pounds of salt-petre two ounces of salt prunella, two-pennyworth of cochineal, pound all in a mortar, put them into a stone pot, a row of sprats, a layer of your compound, and so on to the top alternately. Press them hard down, cover them close, let them stand six months, and they will be fit for use. Observe that your sprats be very fresh, and don't wash nor wipe them, but just take them as they come out of the water.
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