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Mock Brawn

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

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Mock Brawn

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Boil the neat's feet until very tender and remove the meat.

  2. Boil the salted belly piece of pork until almost cooked, then remove the bones.

  3. Roll the meat from the feet and the pork together tightly with a strong cloth and coarse tape.

  4. Boil the rolled meat until very tender.

  5. Hang it up in the cloth until cold.

  6. Store it in a sousing liquor as directed in the next article.

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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