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Brawn

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Brawn

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Remove the bones from the meat.

  2. Sprinkle the flesh with salt and place it on a tray to drain blood.

  3. Salt the meat lightly and roll it tightly.

  4. Boil the rolled meat in a large pot until tender enough to pierce with a stiff straw.

  5. Let it cool completely, then place it in a pickle made of water, salt, and wheat bran.

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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