Chapter XV · Relevés and Entrées · No. 1167
1167—Cold Salt Beef
Salt beef, served cold, constitutes an excellent sideboard dish for luncheons.
It need only be neatly trimmed all round, care being taken to preserve all the fat so highly esteemed by some. Indeed, a piece of cold salt fat is sometimes added to that already existing around and in the meat, in which case the extra quantity is fixed to the beef by means of a hatelet.
Escoffier, A. (1907). A Guide to Modern Cookery, No. 1167, p. 387. London: William Heinemann. Translation of Le Guide Culinaire (1903).
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