Rock or common salt 1½ lb.
Bay salt, pounded 1 lb.
Treacle 1 lb.
Persist in this course four days longer, when it will be sufficient
to _turn_ it only every second day, and baste it with the liquor ten
minutes each time. When it has thus laid fourteen days more, it may
be taken up, wiped dry, and suspended in a quick current of air, and
bound round with broad tape, so that it may be turned upside down
occasionally, to prevent the juices settling in one part. When dried
sufficiently, rub coarse oatmeal or bran, first well heated, all over
the joint, and hang it in your chimney to be smoked, three days only,
with
Beech chips 2 parts
Peat 2 parts
Oak sawdust 2 parts
which will impart scarcely any flavour of the smoke for observe, it is
“Hung Beef.”