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Another Mock Brawn

This recipe uses saltpetre, which may pose food safety risks.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Another Mock Brawn

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil the neats' feet until very tender.

  2. Remove the meat from the feet.

  3. Boil the salted belly piece of pork until almost cooked.

  4. Remove the bones from the pork.

  5. Roll the meat from the feet and the pork together tightly.

  6. Wrap it securely with a strong cloth and coarse tape.

  7. Boil the wrapped meat until very tender.

  8. Hang it up in the cloth until cold.

  9. Store it in a sousing liquor as directed.

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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