The recipe
Oven, in the book's wordsA cool oven
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare the marrow as described, ensuring it is clean.
Combine the prepared marrow and hog's lard in a pot.
Boil for four hours, adding more boiling water as needed.
Strain the mixture through a linen cloth into small pots.
Allow to cool and cover the pots.
Store in a cool place; it will keep for many years.
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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