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Soyee's Eeceipt to Cook Salt Meat for Fifty Men

A method for cooking salt meat for fifty men.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Soyee's Eeceipt to Cook Salt Meat for Fifty Men

Ingredients

Directions

Soak

  1. Put 50 lbs. of salt meat in a large pot.

  2. Fill the pot with water and let it soak overnight.

Cook and serve

  1. The next morning, wash the meat well.

  2. Fill the pot with fresh water and boil gently for three hours.

  3. Serve the meat, skimming off the fat, which can be used as a substitute for butter.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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What each ingredient does

Salt meat
Is the main ingredient; soaking draws out excess salt before cooking.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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