If very salt, it
is well to put it in soak over night; change the water while cooking;
and observe the same rules as in boiling tongue. If it is intended to
be eaten when cold, it is a good plan to put it between clean boards,
and press it down with heavy weights for a day or two. A small leg
of bacon should be boiled three hours; ten pounds four hours; twelve
pounds five hours. All meat should boil moderately; furious boiling
injures the flavor.
Buffalo's tongue should soak a day and a night, and boil as much as
six hours.
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CHOICE OF MEAT.
If people wish to be economical, they should take some pains to
ascertain what are the cheapest pieces of meat to buy; not merely
those which are cheapest in price, but those which go farthest when
cooked. That part of mutton called the rack, which consists of the
neck, and a few of the rib bones below, is cheap food. It is not more
than four or five cents a pound; and four pounds will make a dinner
for six people. The neck, cut into pieces, and boiled slowly an hour
and a quarter, in little more than water enough to cover it, makes
very nice broth.
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