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To Preserve Meat in Snow

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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To Preserve Meat in Snow

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Set an open cask in a cold place.

  2. Layer snow and pieces of meat alternately in the cask.

  3. Ensure the pieces do not touch each other or the sides of the cask.

  4. The meat will remain fresh and good until the end of March.

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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