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Soyee's Eeceipt to Cook Salt Meat Foe Fifty Men

A method for preparing salted meat for fifty men.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Soyee's Eeceipt to Cook Salt Meat Foe Fifty Men

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Put 50 lbs. of salt meat in a large pot.

  2. Fill the pot with water and let it soak overnight.

  3. The next morning, wash the meat well.

Cook and serve

  1. Fill the pot with fresh water and boil gently for three hours, then serve.

  2. Skim off the fat, which can be used as a substitute for butter.

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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