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Beef, Round of, Pickled

Boil six pounds of salt, two pounds of sugar, and three ounces of powdered saltpetre in three gallons of water (spring water is the best if it can be procured), skim well, and when cold, pour it over the joint, which should previously have been rubbed during two or three days with a dry mixture of the same. Some housekeepers prefer this dry method throughout, rubbing regularly for twenty-one days, and introducing the salt only during the last fortnight. If put into lukewarm water, boiled for four minutes, then drawn back and simmered slowly at the rate of twenty minutes to every pound, the meat will be tender, and of a good colour and flavour. Average cost of beef, 10d. per pound.