Spiced Beef

Beef soaked for ten days, then pickled in salt, saltpeter, pepper and mixed spices.

Remove the bones from a piece of thin flank of beef and soak for ten days in a covered crock containing a pickle composed of the following ingredients: Boil for twenty minutes two gallons of water, five pounds of salt, two pounds of coarse sugar and four ounces of saltpeter, with two ounces of black pepper and three ounces of mixed spice slightly bruised in a mortar and tied up in a muslin bag and a few bay leaves. Skim off the scum as it rises and let it stand until cold.