Name: To Salt Beef for Immediate Use
Ingredients: Round of beef; Coarse sea salt

To Salt Beef for Immediate Use

Ingredients

Round of beef
Coarse sea salt

Directions

Salt the top and sides of the beef moderately.
Place the beef on sticks or the tongs of a cheese tub over a tub of cold water to draw the salt through it for boiling the next 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.