LEONI'S MEAT-PRESERVING PROCESS.

Evening Star, Issue 3411, 27 January 1874, Page 3

LEONI'S MEAT-PRESERVING PROCESS.

A meeting of gentlemen interested in the question of meat preserving was held at Scott’s Hotel, Melbourne, on January 6. A statement was re id, from which we extract as follows ;—That Mr Leoui was the possessor of a valuable invention, for which ho had obtained letters patent. By this method w hole carcases could be preserved as well as joints, and not one pound would go bad. An expensive plant was not required—no particular machinery being necessary, no boiling, tinning, Ac. —the process being carried out in an air tight chamber, which, if thoroughly air tight, will preserve the meat therein for an indefinite period. . . The various trial shipments made resulted in the safe transport of all the meat operated on in the first trial, and more or less defective results with those from the second (owing to a leak having been discovered in the operating chamber). Extensive premises would not be necessary, nor would the buildings be of a costly nature. In less than a month the company could be in full working order, more especially for the local trade. Such chambers -as were required would cost about L3O each, and a series of such chambers something less. A boiled leg of mutton, which had been preserved for very nearly ssx months, and had just been brought from the kitchen, was then cut into by Mr Negus, the agent for the inventor. It opened out well and juicy. It was in a good state of preservation and smelt well, although neither the texture nor the flavor of it was such as to make it a substitute for fresh meat, if fresh meat were to be had easily. r i he loin from which it had been cut was lying uncooked beside it, and presented the appearance of sound meat that had been hang for some time. The uncooked meat was tested by pricking into the substance of it along the course of the bone, and the sampling instrument upon being withdrawn sjmeit of nothing but clean and wholesome meat. _