Skip to main content
Main

To Pickle Meat in One Day

A method of pickling beef by brining it in salt and water for 24 hours before boiling.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
Jump to recipe ↓

To Pickle Meat in One Day

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Fill a tub with rain or river water.

  2. Place two pieces of thin wood across the tub.

  3. Set the beef on the wood, about 1 inch above the water.

Salt and rest

  1. Cover the beef with coarse sea salt.

  2. Let it sit for 24 hours.

Finish

  1. Remove the beef and boil it.

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.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Beef
Provides the dense meat that the salt cures and firms.
Coarse sea salt
Draws out moisture and seasons the meat as it cures it.

The step that matters

Cover the beef with coarse sea salt. Salt must coat the whole surface evenly. Gaps let the meat spoil or cure unevenly, while salt dissolves into the moisture drawn out of the meat and forms a brine that seasons it throughout.

“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.

You might also like

Tomato SoupTomato Soup526 recipesBrown BreadBrown Bread461 recipesMutton BrothMutton Broth292 recipesYorkshire PuddingYorkshire Pudding264 recipes