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Preserving Meat By Electricity

Preserve meat by immersing it in a 30% salt solution and passing continuous electric current.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Preserving Meat By Electricity

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Immerse the meat in the 30% salt solution.

  2. Pass a continuous current of electricity through the solution.

  3. After 10 to 20 hours, remove the meat and hang it up to dry.

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

Meat
Is the food being preserved; the salt and current act on it to slow spoilage.
Common salt
Forms the brine that carries the current and draws moisture out of the meat, helping preservation.

The step that matters

Passing the current through the solution. The current must run continuously through the brine for the full soaking period. Interrupting it or using a weak solution can leave the meat under-treated, so it may not preserve properly.

“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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