The Dutch Way to Salt Beef

Ingredients

• 10 lb lean beef
• 1 lb treacle
• 1 oz saltpetre
• 1 lb common salt

Instructions

1. Rub the beef well with the treacle, and let it remain for 3 days, turning and rubbing it often;
2. then wipe it, pound the salt and saltpetre very fine, rub these well in, and turn it every day for 10 days.
3. 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.
4. Boil it, and, on taking it out of the pot, put a heavy weight on it to press it.