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Salting meat for garrison troops (meat preservation bonus episode)

This is the relevant section from Fronsperger’s Besatzung, a treatise on managing garrison troops and defending fortresses. It is has many similarities with Coler’s Oeconomia and notably, instruction for proto-pastrami. And when bacon is to be had in the towns … Continue reading

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Salting bacon (meat preservation part 5)

Onward in the Oeconomia: Coler’s word on bacon and its dishonest sellers To salt bacon and keep it long (marginalia: bacon, how it is to be salted and kept for a long time) You salt bacon just as you do … Continue reading

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