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To Preserve Meat in Hot or Close Weather

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 3 ingredients
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To Preserve Meat in Hot or Close Weather

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Thoroughly dry the meat and flour it in all the crevices.

  2. Lightly dust the meat with powdered charcoal, ensuring it is well dredged into the joints.

  3. For game, place powdered charcoal in the beak and vent.

  4. After dusting with flour and charcoal, place the meat in muslin bags.

  5. Hang the bags in a current of air.

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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