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Title: Butchering and curing meats in China

Author: Carl Oscar Levine

Release date: June 10, 2022 [eBook #68282]
Most recently updated: October 18, 2024

Language: English

Original publication: China: Canton Christian College, 1921

Credits: Anonymous (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library and the Internet Archive.)

*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BUTCHERING AND CURING MEATS IN CHINA ***

Canton Christian College

BULLETIN NO. 27

BUTCHERING AND CURING
MEATS IN CHINA

BY

CARL OSCAR LEVINE

Associate Professor of Animal Husbandry

Canton, China

1921

Butchering and Curing Meats in China

CONTENTS

Preface
Introduction
Origin of Meat Foods
Food Animals in China Section
Hogs 1
Cattle 2
Water Buffalo 3
Sheep and Goats 4
Poultry 5
Selection of Animals for Slaughter
Health 6
Condition 7
Breeding 8
Feeding 9
Age and Size for Killing 10
Preparation of the Animals for Slaughter
Bleeding and Dressing Hogs
Tools 11
Scalding Equipment 12
Killing the Hog 13
“Watered” Meat 14
Scalding and Scraping 15
Gutting 16
Cooling the Carcass 17
Cutting up the Carcass 18
Shoulders 19
Middle Part 20
Hams 21
Trimmings 22
Head 23
Feet 24
Killing and Dressing Beef
Tools 25
Stunning 26
Bleeding 27
Skinning and Gutting 28
Treatment of Hides 29
Killing and Dressing Sheep
Stunning and Bleeding 30
Skinning 31
Gutting 32
Bleeding and Dressing Poultry
Bleeding and Picking 33
Keeping Meat Fresh
Curing Meats: American Methods
Preparing the Meat for Curing 34
Vessels for Curing 35
Curing Agents 36
Wet and Dry Cures Compared
Recipes for Curing Meats
Corned Beef 37
Dried Beef 38
Plain Salt Pork 39
Dry Cured Pork 40
Sugar Cured Pork 41
Pork Sausage 42
Mixed Meat Sausage 43
Bologna Sausage 44
Blood Sausage 45
Smoked, or Country Sausage 46
Frankfort, or Vienna Sausage 47
Liver Sausage 48
Summer Sausage 49
Headcheese 50
Scrapple 51
Snow Packing 52
Partial Cooking 53
Rendering Lard 54
Smoked Meats 55
The Smoke House 56
The Fuel 57
Preparing Meat for Smoking 58
The Fire 59
Keeping Smoked Meats 60
Recipe for Yellow Wash 61
Chinese Meat Recipes
Bean Sauce Sausage (腊腸) 62
Pickle for Bean Sauce Sausage 63
Preparing the Meat for Sausage 64
Sausage Casing (腸衣) 65
Softening the Casing 66
Filling the Casing 67
Sunning and Drying 68
Season and Weather for Making Sausage 69
Lean Pork Sausage (瘦肉腸) 70
Liver Sausage (潤腸) 71
Tung Koon Sausage (東莞腊腸) 72
Oyster Sauce Sausage (蠔油腸) 73
Catsup Sausage 74
Roast or Baked Sausage (火腸) 75
Cured Ham 76
Sun Dried Pork (瘦𦡳肉) 77
Pickled Pig’s Feet (札蹄) 78
Pickled Beef 79
Dried Rice Birds (腊禾花雀) 80
Pork Stuffed Liver (金銀潤) 81
Lo Mei (鹵味) 82
Roast Meat (燒肉) 83
Dried Duck (腊鴨) 84
Puffed Pig Skin (豬皮) 85