How to Fry Salt Pork - Cut
your salt pork into slices and lay them in cold water in the
spider. Boil 2 or 3 minutes. Pour off water and set spider on on
coals and broom slices on each side. Serve with baked potatoes
and baked or fried sour apples to make a delicious supper. Also
desirable if milk is left over is to soak in milk overnight to
use as a tasty breakfast meat.
Authentic Meat Recipes of the Frontier
Meats were not always a basic dish at every meal like we know it. Meat spoiled without refrigeration, so salting meat was a common way to preserve it. Wild game such as rabbit, squirrel, deer, wild turkeys and pheasant were a common meal when the days hunting was successful. Families near water enjoyed fish as a main meat dish.
Once settled, the families farmed and raised their own meat like cattle, pigs and chickens. Pioneer used every part of the animal including tails, and the lining of organs. Meats were steamed, boiled and made into stews and puddings (what we know as "pot pies").
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