SC - food preserving
Terry Nutter
gfrose at cotton.vislab.olemiss.edu
Tue Apr 15 15:07:09 PDT 1997
Hi, Katerine here. Stefan asked:
>>For what it's worth: there's a medieval recipe for keeping venison that
>>seals it in a container immersed in honey after cooking. The principle is
>>presumably similar: the cooking kills bad stuff in the meat, and the honey
>>both keeps out air and provides too rich a medium for new bad stuff to
>>grow.
>
>It took me a second, but I believe what she meant was "for keeping venison
>by immersing it in honey and then sealing it in a container". Am I correct
>Katerine? I can see putting the cooked venison in a container and then
>immersing the container in the honey but I don't think that is what is
>meant.
Oops! Yes, sorry; the honey's in the container, not vice versa.
Cheers,
- -- Katerine/Terry
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