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To Salt Beef

This recipe uses saltpetre.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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To Salt Beef

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Extract all kernels from the meat.

  2. Sprinkle the meat well with salt.

  3. Hang the meat to drain for six hours.

  4. Rub the meat well with salt.

  5. Place it in a salting tub with a close-fitting cover.

  6. Turn the meat every day.

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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