To Cure Tongues (I)

Ingredients

• For a tongue of 7 lbs.
• 1 oz saltpetre
• 1/2 oz black pepper
• 4 oz sugar
• 3 oz juniper berries
• 6 oz salt

Instructions

1. Rub the above ingredients well into the tongue, and let it remain in the pickle for 10 days or a fortnight;
2. then drain it, tie it up in brown paper, and have it smoked for about 20 days over a wood fire; or it may be boiled out of this pickle.