Best Way of Keeping Beef

Ingredients

• one and a half pounds of salt
• one gallon of water
• one ounce of saltpetre
• one tablespoonful of ground pepper

Method

1. 1

   Cut up the meat in pieces as large as you desire; pack in a barrel or cask.

2. 2

   Then make a brine with the salt, water, saltpetre, and ground pepper.

3. 3

   Pour it on the beef boiling hot, and cover closely.

4. 4

   Your meat will be good and fresh any time.

As published

This recipe was extracted from High-Street cook book (1885) by C.I. Hood & Co. (Lowell, Mass.), Katherine Golden Bitting Collection on Gastronomy (Library of Congress), page 34. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Best Way of Keeping Beef . Cut up the meat in pieces as large as you desire; pack in a barrel or cask. Then make a brine as follows: one and a half pounds of salt t<> one gallon of water. one ounce of saltpetre to one hundred pounds of beef, one tablespoonful of ground pepper

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