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Pressed Beef

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Pressed Beef

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Remove the bones from the meat.

  2. Season the meat with coarse sea salt and your preferred spices.

  3. Cover the meat and let it sit for about a week.

  4. Boil the meat slowly until tender.

  5. Remove the meat from the pot and press it under heavy weights until cold.

  6. Slice the pressed meat thinly.

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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