To Cure Ayrshire Bacon

• a small side of home-fed pork
• salt
• saltpetre
• moist brown sugar
• white vinegar

Mix six ounces of salt, one ounce of saltpetre and eight ounces of moist brown sugar in a bowl. Bone the pork, and rub the mixture well into it, particularly on the cut side from which the bones have been removed. Place in a pickling-pan or crock and sprinkle over it any of the remaining pickle mixture. Leave in a cool place for three days, then sprinkle with a