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Aberdeen Method of Pickling Salmon

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United Kingdom

Known as a British recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

  • Preserving. Old preserving methods may not make food safe to keep. Use current tested guidance.

Ingredients 5 ingredients

  1. a gallon of vinegar
  2. Must
  3. Salmon
  4. Salt
  5. Water

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.

Method

  1. Boil salmon, as if intended immediately for the table, in water mixed with a good quantity of common salt, then lay it to drain, till cold, in the open air.
  2. Afterwards put it in a close cask or pot, with a gallon of vinegar to thirty pounds of salmon, and half the quantity of water in which the fish was boiled.
  3. Great care must be used in taking off the scum as it rises, during the whole time the salmon is boiling, which should on no account be overdone.

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Colander
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Credit

From A modern system of domestic cookery, or, The housekeeper's guide (1827), printed page 157, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/b21532412

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.