| Show how to keep meat fresh a long time there is 13 no good dood reason why farmers and their families should eat so much salt pork leaving all the fresh meat to the inhabitants of cities and villages when therol the following method will keep meat fresh for weeks even ilithe warmest weather I 1 know for I 1 have tried it for more than ten ton years As soon as the animal heat is out of the meat slice it up ready for cooking prepare a 1 large ar ge jar by scalding well with hot hoft lait laib salt sait water mix salt and pulverized saltpetre sait salt petre in the proportion of one tablespoonful of saltpeter to one teacupful of salt cover the bottom of the jar with a sprinkle of salt and pepper put down a layer of meat sprinkle fe with salt and pepper the same as if just going to the table and continue in this manner till the jar is full fold a cloth or a towel and wat wet it with strong salt and water in which a little of the saltpetre salt petre is dissolved press the cloth closely over the meat and set it in a cool coot place be sure and press the cloth on tightly as each layer is removed and f pur your meat will keep for mona S it is a a good let the meat lie over night after it is ff sliced before benore packing then drain ot off all the blood that oozes from ith its it it will be llo me decesary necessary cesany to change the cloth occasionally or take it ont ott and wash it first in in cold water then scald in salt and water as at first in this way farmers can have fresh meat the year round I 1 have kept beef that was killed the of february till the of june jund then I 1 packed a large jar of veal in the same saule way during the dog d days and it kept six sli x weeks T this 1 8 receipt alone is worth the price of any newspaper in the land ea ex |
