Recipe for brine

Name: Recipe for brine
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 32 cups water; 2 1/2 cups salt (preferably coarse); 8 tbsp sugar; 4 tsp sour salt (citric acid); 1 raw fresh egg

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Greece

A recipe for brine that is suitable for pickles or feta cheese but not meat or fish.

Recipe by πατσιλινάκου

A recipe for brine that is suitable for pickles or feta cheese but not meat or fish.

Recipe by πατσιλινάκου

Cookpad Greece @cook_8238176

Greece

A recipe for brine that is suitable for pickles or feta cheese but not meat or fish.

Recipe by πατσιλινάκου

A recipe for brine that is suitable for pickles or feta cheese but not meat or fish.

Recipe by πατσιλινάκου

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Ingredients

32 cupswater
2 1/2 cupssalt (preferably coarse)
8 tbspsugar
4 tspsour salt (citric acid)
1raw fresh egg

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Steps

1

Soap the egg, wash it and rinse it thoroughly.
2

Using a large pot add the water and the salt and stir until all the salt dissolves completely.
3

Place the egg in the pot and if it floats the brine is ready. If not, add some more salt.
4

Remove the egg.
5

Add the rest of the solid ingredients.
6

Boil the brine for 10 minutes.
7

Let it cool completely before you use it.
8

If you don't use the brine on the same day that you have propared it, store it in a glass jar.