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To Salt Beef

From The "A1" cookery book, 1901

Serves 15

This method prevents the meat from becoming hard.

Presented as published in 1901. Historical recipes may not meet modern food-safety standards. Cook from the modern interpretation below, not the original instructions.

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Ingredients

Method

As published

This recipe was extracted from The "A1" cookery book (1901) by H. N. L., page 29. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

To Salt Beef. — Take a piece of silver-side of the round weighing about 7 or 8 lbs. and cover it with brown sugar well rubbed in, and allow it to remain six hours ; then powder half an ounce of saltpetre

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