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Dried meat and recipes in period.

 

NOTE: See also the files: drying-foods-msg, Calontr-Jerky-art, pickled-meats-msg, corned-beef-msg, Dried-Bef-Qan-art, meat-smoked-msg, Lrds-Salt-Exp-art.

 

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Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 00:12:36 -0400

From: "Robin Carroll-Mann" <harper at idt.net>

Subject: Re: SC - jerky documentation?

 

And it came to pass on 15 Sep 00,, that Wajdi wrote:

> Pure speculation on my part, but has any consideration been given

> to the idea that dried meat products may be found in early

> Spanish or Arab writings?  Seems to me as if those areas would

> have had sufficient sun to dry meat.

 

Dunno. I've seen recipes that use air-dried fish: hake and conger eel.  

There's a 1553 Spanish treatise on the benefits of physical exercise that

mentions "tasajos", which the Royal Spanish dictionary says is meat

that has been preserved by drying and salting it, or in oil.

 

http://www.uida.es/mendez/portada.html

 

So I searched for "tasajos" at google.com, and found a link to a page

about food in Don Quixote.  (Okay, so I'm obsessive.  Everyone needs a

hobby.) http://www.jimena.com/cocina/apartados/quijote.htm

It gives a quote from the novel, in which some goatherds are boiling

tasajos of goat meat in a cauldron.  The explanatory note says that

tasajos are:

"Carne adobada durante cuatro dÌas y dejada despuÈs a secar. Es

como la cecina del cabrero. Se puede hacer con vaca, ternera, venado,

jabalÌ..."

 

"Meat marinated for four days and then left to dry.  It is the cecina [a

type of hung dried beef] of the goatherd.  It can be made with beef, veal,

venison, wild boar..."

 

I found another online source -- a 16th century commentary on sailing

and life at sea -- and it had some scathing things to say about the

rations for passengers on a galley-ship.  Tasajos of goat were

mentioned, along with such delights as rancid bacon.

 

There was also a quote from a 17th century comedy by Tirso de Molina.

Two laborers are complaining that their employers don't pay well.  One

of them says that his rations are badly-seasoned tasajos and coarse

bran bread.

 

I get the feeling that tasajos were often used as a food for travellers and

the poor.

 

Lady Brighid ni Chiarain

Settmour Swamp, East (NJ)

 

 

Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 12:46:01 -0700

From: david friedman <ddfr at best.com>

Subject: SC - Period Islamic Dried Meat

 

From _Social Life Under the Abbasids_ by M. M. Ahsan, p. 113

- ---

The Abbasids inherited the art of food preservation from the ancient

east and the classical civilizations. The drying process was widely

used and the least expensive. Even the Arabs of the remote past were

fond of dried meat called qadid. ... The common people of the time

used this method extensively. Like meat, fish was also dried in the

sun and used throughout the year.

 

In one process for food preservation, antiseptic agents, especially

salt and vinegar, were used. The meat thus preserved was known as

namaksud, a Persian compound word indicative of the Persian origin of

the method. To make namaksud, the meat was cut into slices, seasoned

with salt, and left in the sun on a plank to dry. When required, the

slices were moistened with water and cooked.

- ---

 

I should add that Ahsan is not entirely reliable--he repeatedly

describes murri as "brine," for example, and makes frequent errors of

arithmetic in doing currency conversions. The book has a tone of

"paste together all the references you can find to subject X in the

literature without really digesting or evaluating them." But I expect

that on a simple point like this he is accurate. He cites a variety

of sources, of which the most accessible is probably the Encyclopedia

of Islam; I haven't yet checked it.

- --

David/Cariadoc

http://www.daviddfriedman.com/

 

 

Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 16:02:13 -0800

From: lilinah at earthlink.net

Subject: SC - Moroccan Dried Meat

 

Long ago we discussed dried meat, and the lack of "period" recipes. I

have discovered a recipe for Moroccan dried meat. I suspect that some

variation of this goes back thousand years or more. However, it

doesn't seem to me to be the sort of thing that would have made it

into a cookbook for the wealthy or noble, so other than anecdotal

references in literature, which i have seen, we'll probably never

really know.

 

This recipe is from "Taste of Morocco" by Robert Carrier, Boxtree

Ltd., London: 1987/1996. ISBN 0-7522-1039-4

 

I haven't tried it myself.

 

Khlii

Sun-dried preserved meat

 

The author, a Brit, refers to it as "an age old method". We here on

this list know that could mean that it goes back to someone's

grandmother 40 years ago.

 

He goes on to say: "Khlii is used, much as we use bacon or petit salÈ

(lightly salted pork fat), to flavour tagines of fresh or dried

vegetables, or a winter couscous or soup."

 

- -----

 

2.25 kg / 5 lb beef

50 g / 2 oz coarse salt

450 g / 1 lb lamb (or beef) fat

1.2 litres / 2 pints water

250 ml / 8 fl oz groundnut/peanut oil

150 ml / 1/4 pint olive oil

 

Spice and Garlic Paste

75 g / 3 oz (6 Tb) coriander seeds, ground

50 g / 2 oz garlic, peeled and crushed

2 Tb vinegar

50 ml / 2 fl oz olive oil

50 g / 2 oz coarse salt

 

1. To prepare spice and garlic paste, combine all the ingredients

together in a bowl, mix well, and leave to rest for 24 hours.

 

2. In the meantime, cut the meat into long thin strips. Rub the

strips well with the coarse salt. Cover with a piece of muslin /

cheesecloth to protect from insects, and leave to absorb the flavours

for 24 hours.

 

3. Then take each strip of salted meat and cover it with a layer of

spice and garlic paste, rubbing it in well with your fingers. Cover

with muslin / cheesecloth and leave to absorb flavours for a further

24 hours.

 

4. On the following day, take each piece of meat and hang it over a

washing line or, with needle and thread, take thread through the end

of each strip and tie thread into a loop. Insert a broomstick through

each loop and hang the pole horizontally in the sun, covering the

meat with a strip of muslin / cheesecloth as above. Make sure that

each strip is well covered with spice and garlic paste, and pat on a

little where needed. Repeat this process over 3 or 4 more days, or

until meat is thoroughly dried. Absolutely no moisture must come out

when meat is pressed with your finger. Make sure you bring meat

indoors at sunset, to keep it away from any possible mist or moisture

in the night air.

 

5. When meat is dried, remove it from the line or pole. Cut it into

even sized pieces and simmer it with its aromatics in melted fat,

water, and the oils, until all the water has been absorbed. The

richly flavoured fat will be left in the pan. Stir often to ensure

that meat does not stick to the bottom of pan or scorch.

 

6. When the meat is tender, remove it from casserole or stock pot and

allow to cool completely in a large shallow container. Strain fats

through a muslin / cheesecloth -lined sieve into a container. Allow

to cool completely. It must still be liquid.

 

7. Fill sterilized Kilner / Mason jars loosely with meat, then pour

over strained fat. Leave jars open for 2 hours, then seal.

 

8. Reserve the remaining bits or crumbs of meat and spice and garlic

paste in a jar to use in savoury beghrir or rghaif

 

- -----

 

MY NOTE: beghrir and rghaif are fried pancakey-breads - i'm not

giving a real accurate description, but it will do for now. I ate

both kinds, as well as several others, while i was in Morocco, but i

don't think i had any khlii.

 

Both pan cooked (such as beghrir and rghaif) and baked yeasted breads

(khobz) are often made with semolina flour so they are faintly golden

and have a very different flavor from white or whole wheat flour in

the US - which was to my mind really delicious. When given the choice

between white and pain complet (which in France is a modified whole

wheat) bread loaves, i chose the complet, which was the golden kind.

Anyone on the list have experience making bread with semolina flour?

I imagine it behaves differently from the usual white...

 

NOTE 2: The author gives no information on how to store khlii or on

how long it keeps.

 

Anahita

 

 

Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 21:15:52 -0500

To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org

From: Philip & Susan Troy <troy at asan.com>

Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Dried meat in period?

 

Also sprach david friedman:

>>While I tend to agree with Brangwayna, have you

>>considered dried meat, like jerky?

>>Phlip

>To bring this back to questions of historical cookery ...  .

>What information do we have on the use of dried meat in period?

>Stockfish was certainly common. Anything closer?

 

The Magyars are thought to have used a form of dried meat, beef or

even horsemeat, and it is rumored (let's just say I don't have access

to a primary source) that the original gulyas was a sort of pocket

soup, more or less a meat stew cooked until the liquid was almost

completely dried, and the meat mostly dried, too. It was then

finished by drying under the sun and in the wind. Presumably it could

be reconstituted for eating, but I suspect it could be chewed on

without further moistening or cooking.

 

And I could swear there was an Islamic dried beef recipe referred to

on this list...

 

And then, of course, we have the old standbys of dryish hams being

eaten without further cooking, and sausages, including the

smoke-dried Polonian sausages (English kielbasa) mentioned by Hugh

Plat.

 

Adamantius

 

 

Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 20:57:22 -0800

To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org

From: lilinah at earthlink.net

Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Dried meat in period?

 

From: david friedman <ddfr at daviddfriedman.com>

>What information do we have on the use of dried meat in period?

>Stockfish was certainly common. Anything closer?

 

I haven't seen any European references, but, then, i haven't looked.

Anahita isn't European.

 

However, i've seen references to dried spiced meat in the Middle

Eastern corpus - not eaten as jerky though; it's carried around

dried, but it eat it, it's cooked in liquid. There's a recipe or two

for making it and another few recipes for using it lurking in

"Medieval Arab Cookery". I'll have to look and see what it's called

and which of the several translated books it's in...

 

Anahita

 

 

Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 11:19:53 -0600 (CST)

From: "Pixel, Goddess and Queen" <pixel at hundred-acre-wood.com>

To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org

Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Dried meat in period?

 

On Thu, 28 Feb 2002 XvLoverCrimvX at aol.com wrote:

> So with the talk of jerky (which is making me hungry for the dried meat) in

> the air, who has a good jerky recipe with instructions on how to make jerky.

> Mmm, if i'm not busy, I make some myself if I can find a recipe.

> Misha

 

Here's our recipe. Contains only ingredients that can in theory be

documented to England in the 13th century. We're obsessive that way.

 

1/2 cup water

1/2 cup red wine vinegar

1 tbsp salt

2 tsp honey

1 tsp garlic bits

1 tsp dried onion

1 tsp dried mustard

1/2 tsp or thereabouts black pepper

 

Marinate sliced meat overnight or longer, dehydrate. Yum. The other half

stores his in his fridge, but this has lasted all through Pennsic while

living in a linen bag. I prefer more pepper and mustard, myself.

 

Margaret

 

 

From: "AnnaMarie" <wolfsong at ida.net>

To: <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>

Date: Sun, 19 May 2002 11:12:30 -0600

Subject: [Sca-cooks] Update on Lamb Jerky

 

Well, it's not beef, that's for sure.....  lamb jerky takes about 1/3 of

time longer than beef and even when it's dried to the consistency I dry my

beef it still tastes a bit greasy to me.  I trimmed as much fat as I could

and when it was finished drying I trimmed some more fat off (dogs were happy

with those leavings).  I marinated it in red wine vinegar, pepper and a bit

of sugar so the flavor is nice, it's just greasier than beef and definitely

tastes like lamb.

 

All in all, I think I'll stick to the beef jerky and save the lamb for stews

and kabobs.

 

Kristianne

Wolf Song Day Spa & Herb Shop

 

 

Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2010 15:33:54 +0930

From: drakey at internode.on.net

To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>,   "Terry

        Decker" <t.d.decker at att.net>

Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Meat Jerky

 

There's a Yuan Chinese Recipe (it's in A Soup for the Qan) for Drief

Beef... I served it as part of a Mongol Feast at Rowany festival this

year and it was well received... The Tsaoko Cardamon in it gives it a

pronounced smokey note...

 

Drakey.

 

On Mon 05/07/10 2:22 PM , "Terry Decker" t.d.decker at att.net sent:

<< To the best of my knowledge, dried and smoked meats pre-date the Jews.  

Drying meats and cooking begin in the Middle Paleolithic between

30,000 and 3000 years ago. There is some evidence to suggest that the practice

is at least 110,000 years old. The Jewish people trace their roots to the  

Biblical patriarchs about 4,000 years ago with Judaism becoming established  

within the millenia following. I don't think one can blame the Jews

for jerky.

 

Bear >>

 

<<< I have come into some controversy about meat jerky. My latest is that it is of Jewish origin???

Suey >>>

 

 

Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2010 06:59:57 -0400

From: Johnna Holloway <johnnae at mac.com>

To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>

Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Meat Jerky

 

In the Encyclopedia of Food & Culture in the entry "Meat, Smoked"

 

In South America, long strips of dried meat are called charqui, which  

has come into English as "jerky" as the name for a snack made from  

beef or turkey.

 

http://www.enotes.com/food-encyclopedia/meat-smoked

 

Under Canada: Native Peoples

The Plains Peoples

 

The Plains Peoples (Blackfoot, Blood, Peigan, Gros Ventre, Cree,  

Assiniboine, Sioux, and Sarcee [Tsuu T'ina]) followed buffalo  

migrations. snipped Jerky was prepared by sundrying strips of meat,  

which were pounded almost into a powder and then mixed with buffalo  

fat and berries to make pemmican. Stored in a buffalo skin, it  

remained edible for years, and early European settlers and fur traders  

depended upon it.

 

http://www.enotes.com/food-encyclopedia/canada-2

 

Under Preserving and then under Drying

 

Drying occurs naturally with food left in the sun, or on the vine,  

like beans, or grapes. Some foods, like apples and tomatoes, are  

generally cut into smaller pieces for drying, a practice which allows  

the moisture to uniformly evaporate. Herbs are frequently dried whole  

and on the stem. Low humidity, heat, and air circulation are important  

so that mold does not occur. Meats and fish can be dried to the point  

of extreme desiccation, resulting in a product usually called jerky.

 

http://www.enotes.com/food-encyclopedia/preserving

 

I checked the Oxford Reference set:

 

jerky, jerked beef   South American dried meat. See biltong; charqui.

 

How to cite this entry:

"jerky, jerked beef"  A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition. Ed. David A.  

Bender.

 

OED says jerky  noun

ad. American Sp. charqui, charque (Pg. xarque), from native Peruvian  

ccharqui:

Jerked beef.

 

1890 in Cent. Dict. 1893 E. COUES Lewis & Clark I. 31 The word as a  

verb is now generally spelled jerk, and jerked meat is known as jerky.

 

Charqui which is linked to this entry says:

[Quichua (Peruvian) ccharqui dried slice of flesh or hung beef. The  

corruption jerkin occurs in Captain J. Smith a 1612, and jerk vb. in  

Anson a 1748.]

 

    Beef prepared for keeping by cutting into thin slices and drying  

in the wind and sun; ?jerked? beef (the latter being a corruption of  

this word).

 

1760-72 tr. Juan & Ulloa's Voy. II. VIII. ix. 271 [Chili]..supplies  

[Peru] with wheat..besides sole leather..Grassa, Charqui, and neat  

tongues. 1845 DARWIN Voy. Nat. xii. (1873) 260 The miners are allowed  

a little charqui.

 

Jerk as a verb

[Corrupted from American Sp. charque-ar in same sense, f. charque,  

charqui, ad. Quichua (Peruvian) ccharqui ?dried flesh, unsalted, in  

long strips?. The verb in Quichua was ccharquini ?to prepare dried  

meat, to jerk?, whence perh. the early cognate JERKIN n.3 The word is  

now used in all parts of Spanish America, and was app. found by  

English navigators in Spanish use in the W. Indies. (See Skeat, Trans.  

Philol. Soc. 1885, 94.)]

 

    trans. To cure (meat, esp. beef) by cutting it into long thin  

slices and drying it in the sun.

 

1707 SLOANE Jamaica I. p. xvi, They [the wild hogs] are shot,..cut  

open, the bones taken out, and the flesh gash'd on the inside into the  

skin, filled with salt, and exposed to the sun, which is called  

Jirking. 1748 Anson's Voy. III. ii. 305 He..was sent here with twenty-

two Indians to jerk beef.

 

Johnnae

 

 

Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:42:13 -0700

From: Carina ZLawson-Williams <aurorasouthern at hotmail.com>

To: <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>

Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Sca-cooks Smoked and Pickled: Sources and

        Recipes

 

Sun dried Jerky

 

       Cut fresh meat into long thin strips, one inch wide. Rub strips with garlic or salt if desired. Dry in sun as quickly as possible by hanging over a line. DO NOT LET THE STRIPS TOUCH. Store in a dry place in clean jars or sacks

 

Cold brined Jerky

 

       Cut muscle meat lengthwise of the grsain into strips an inch thick , about one and a half inches wide and as long as you can make them.Put strips in a wooden barrel or  non- metallic container and cover with a sweet pickle or corning solution for three days. Hang the meat over a cord line or string to drip for 24hrs and continue to hang it in a room or other dry place. Keep the strips from touching each other and protect from dirt and insect with a light cloth covering if necessary. The jerky will continue to dry as long as it is exposed to air- therefore it should be taken down and put swasy in an air tight container as soon as it is dried to your liking. A light smoke will add to the flavour and help preserve the meat

 

Hot brined jerky

 

Is made similar to cold brined except the meat is cut much smaller- like shoe string potatoes- the hot solution is made by adding salt to boiling water until no more salt can be dissolved. Dip strips into the hot brine until they turn white (about 5 min) - then string them up to dry and handle the same way as cold brined

 

You may wish to marinade the meats before using any of these methods

sources- Dene  and Inuvialuit elders

 

 

Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:10:41 -0700

From: David Friedman <ddfr at daviddfriedman.com>

To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>

Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Smoked and Pickled: Sources and Recipes?

 

Expensive but sounds good. A little googling finds a claim of

literary evidence back to the 15th c.

 

<<< perhaps something like the Italian Bresaola.  Recipes can be found

on line, basically beef (or horse) marinated in a brine with herbs &

wine then air dried.  I made some using a modern recipe and it seems

like it would keep a long time even without refrigeration.  Haven't

looked for period recipes though it is one of those things one would

suspect has a long history.

 

Simon Sinneghe

Briaroak, Summits, An Tir >>>

 

 

Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:20:58 -0400

From: Johnna Holloway <johnnae at mac.com>

To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>

Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Bresaola was Smoked and Pickled: Sources and

        Recipes?

 

There's a recipe in Scappi for how to cook them.

page 157 in the Scully translation.

45. To make bresaola of lean veal, fried or grilled

 

Page 556 recipe 46 To prepare braised veal Bresaola

 

Anyway Bresaola is mentioned 15 times in the text. You can use Google  

books to locate the mentions.

 

Johnnae

 

On Aug 30, 2010, at 7:10 PM, David Friedman wrote:

<<< Expensive but sounds good. A little googling finds a claim of  

literary evidence back to the 15th c. >>>

 

perhaps something like the Italian Bresaola. Recipes can be found  

on line, basically beef (or horse) marinated in a brine with herbs  

& wine then air dried.  I made some using a modern recipe and it  

seems like it would keep a long time even without refrigeration.  

Haven't looked for period recipes though it is one of those things  

one would suspect has a long history.

 

Simon Sinneghe

Briaroak, Summits, An Tir

 

 

Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 22:32:22 -0700

From: lilinah at earthlink.net

To: sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org

Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Smoked and Pickled: Sources and Recipes?

 

Adamantius wrote:

<<< It would seem highly plausible that the Turkish version of basturma,

which is dry-rubbed and air-dried, as I understand it, is probably

quite old, and also commercially available. Of course, modern

versions generally include paprika in the rub, but the basic concept

very likely stems from a much older, Old World friendly, concept...>>>

 

The only time that the Ottoman Sultan's palace purchased beef in the

15th and 16th centuries was for the making of basturma, once a year.

Unfortunately, i know of no recipe for it nor any description of how

it was made. Clearly in the 15th c. no paprika was involved, and i

suspect not in the 16th either.

--

Urtatim [that's err-tah-TEEM]

the persona formerly known as Anahita

 

 

Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 17:38:21 -0300

From: Suey <lordhunt at gmail.com>

To: sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org

Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] medieval jerky

 

Ailleagan wrote:

<<< I am working on a project involving medieval beef jerky. . . Does

anyone here know of any extant recipes or descriptions for dried beef? >>>

 

This is what I have:

 

*cecina*, OCast /?e?ina/, Eng. jerky. The Leonese cured meat originated

in the village of Cierzo, known to be a cold area but Montoro in

_Cancionaro _claims that the origin is Jewish as they used it instead of

salt pork and ham. It was known as a Jewish item as far south as

Cordoba. Actually, jerked meat in southern regions meant salted meat. It

is principally from beef and goat. This cured or jerked meat is the

color of molasses. It is found especially in Astorga and had become one

of the most important gastronomic dishes in the entire province of Le?n

by the 10^th C at least. Then beef jerky was sold in the markets of

Le?n. Historically, it is peasant food as the majority of households

annually slaughtered a cow and two pigs to make homemade cured meats,

including jerky, and for fresh meat as well. It is an ancestral food

item of austere populations and known previously as castrated meat (of

goat, lamb and/or roe deer). The oldest animals of the herd are fattened

during three months in the farmyard for this purpose. It is then

slaughtered between St. Martin's Day (November 11^th ) and the

Immaculate Conception (December 8^th ). The meat is cured by placing the

pieces in a trough and covering it with salt for 24 hours in order to

absorb an adequate amount. Then the salt is brushed off. The meat is

then marinated for 24 hours in a mixture of salt, long pepper, wine,

garlic, thyme, oregano and nutmeg. Then it is prepared to hang from a

kitchen beam or rafter.Sas believes that stanza 2255b of /Libro de

Alexandre /should read: after the jerked meat was hung, the roots for

kindling were brought [in January], i.e. /?enisa/(ash) is a

transcription error and the word should be /?e?ina/. The meat is cured

by buring holm oak branches and cabbage stumps in the kitchen fireplace.

With the arrival of spring, the people begin to eat the pieces. Instead

of such a long smoking process, jerky may be aired for 14 months in the

wind on a mountain peak. Lambjerky is thought to be the most delicious.

That of goat is the toughest. Game too was cured in this way. Jerky,

also, is cured in a similar fashion since time immemorial in the

Highlands of Scotland. To be called a "jerk" in Le?n or Scotland, must

be a compliment. 2. an animal designated for cecina during its lifetime.

[Castro. _Alimentaci?n_. 1996:249; _Dialecto_. 1947:174; ES: "Cecina de

Le?n." Nov 25, 02; ES: Fortun. Mar 8, 02; ES: Sartori. Oct. 2, 02; ES:

Wilson. Jun 9, 02; Bercero/Janer. 1983:271:2255b; Montoro/Ciceri.

1991:200-203; S?nchez-Albornoz. 2000:34:39; Sas. 1976:130; and Tapiello.

1994:138]****

 

In other words if you find a current recipe it will be the same as in

the Middle Ages - in rural areas at least.

 

Suey

 

 

Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 17:59:54 -0400

From: Suey <lordhunt at gmail.com>

To: sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org

Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Beef Jerky Recipe OT OP

 

Johnna Holloway wrote:

<<< Subject: [Sca-cooks] Beef Jerky Recipe OT OP >>>

 

Johnna called "beef jerky" OT and OP - I don't see it as that -

"Cecina" - jerky is coming up soon in my blog - Medieval Spanish Chef.

It has been traced back to the 10th C in Leon and before that to the

Jews who used it instead of salt pork and ham in Spain.

I don't know if I can use or adapt the recipe Johnna provided but today

I have been overwhelmed with a recipe calling for 32 liters of wine, 86

lbs of something else -

Its nice to have recipes one can try out without having to have a

mathematician on board!

 

Suey

 

 

Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 14:24:20 -0700 (GMT-07:00)

From: lilinah at earthlink.net

To: sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org

Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Beef Jerky Recipe OT OP

 

There are several kinds of jerky-like dried meats documented in Arabic language cookbooks. Most are meant to be cooked, however, not eaten as is, the way modern jerky is. In the Moroccan variety, khlii, the meat is dried then packed in fat for storage - the Moroccans seem to have a fondness for aged fats, viz. smen, which is butter, often with herbs added, put into jars and buried or stored in a cool-ish dark place, often for years, before being savored.

 

There was one kind of meat, however, in Ibn Sayyar that was to be eaten dried. The very thin slices of meat were wrapped around sticks (i suppose dowels would do today) and IIRC - i don't have the book here where i am - they were put on a tray in the bottom of a tannur and very slowly heated until dry and crispy.

 

I'll look up the recipe tomorrow and post it.

 

Urtatim (that's err-tah-TEEM)

the persona formerly known as Anahita

 

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