Boiling Fresh Meat
Ingredients
Directions
Place the meat in a pot with cold water and add salt.
Slowly bring the water to a boil, skimming off any scum that rises.
Once boiling, add vegetables if desired and cook until they are done.
Let the meat simmer for three to four hours until tender.
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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