- Jan 11, 2010
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Ran acrossed this bit of info while looking at older recipes for making your own corned beef. The recipe called for 1 raw egg in shell for testing salr content of the brine. Apparently in earlier times when saltpeter was used and salt was added seperately....you put an egg into the brine as you were making it....if the egg floated, you had it salty enough....if it sank, you needed to add more salt to the brine......just seemed like a cool way things were done back in those days when the average household couldn't afford testing devices......
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