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Dutch Way to Salt Beef

Ingredients

• 10 pounds of lean beef
• 1 pound of treacle
• 1 ounce of saltpetre
• 1 pound of common salt

Instructions

Rub the beef well with the treacle, and let it remain for 3 days, turning and rubbing it often; then wipe it, pound the salt and saltpetre very fine, rub these well in, and turn it every day for 10 days. Roll it up tightly in a coarse cloth, and press it under a large weight; have it smoked, and turn it upside down every day. Boil it, and, on taking it out of the pot, put a heavy weight on it to press it.

Time: 17 days.

Seasonable at any time.

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Source

The Book of Household Management (1861).

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