Potted Salmon Roe

• salmon roe
• milk
• water
• salt
• saltpetre
• spirit of nitre,

Take the roe from a fish as nearly spawning as possible. Wash the roe well in milk-and-water, and then in cold water, till it come clean off. Afterwards put the roe in a sieve and drain fifteen minutes. To salt them take eight ounces of salt to three pounds of spawn and let them lie in the brine forty-eight hours. Lay them on a board about three-fourths of a yard from the fire, letting them rem