[Sca-cooks] pickled grapes

[Phil Troy/ G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Olwen the Odd:
>Good morning all.
>
>I wonder what means "and as much white-salt as will make it bear an egg".

Add enough salt to your liquid to make a brine of sufficient specific
gravity to float a fresh egg. (How high -on the egg- is unclear, but
presumably pretty high, maybe as much as the halfway point / widest
point, but you're not getting past the saturation point of the
solution anyway, so it may be pretty well moot.) In other words, the
brine can't be too weak.

Today we'd use a hydrometer, but the principle of how deep it sinks
or how how it floats is pretty much the same as using an egg.

Adamantius
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