Name: Salting Meat
Ingredients: 1 ox; coarse sea salt (formerly 'bay salt'); saltpetre

Salting Meat

Ingredients

1 ox
coarse sea salt (formerly 'bay salt')
saltpetre

Directions

As soon as the ox is killed, skin and cut it into pieces quickly.
Salt the meat while it is still hot.
Use equal parts of coarse sea salt and saltpetre, pounded together and heated in an oven.

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.