NEW MEAT PRESERVING SYSTEM.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1750, 29 September 1879, Page 3

NEW MEAT PRESERVING SYSTEM.

The following is from the “ Sydney Morning Herald ” of a late date :—“ A number of gentlemen assembled at the Exchange Hotel yesterday afternoon, and witnessed a practical test of Mr Edward Naylor’s patented system of meat preserving. It will be remembered that the system was described at length in the * Herald ’ fourteen days ago, and it is therefore only necessary to allude to it briefly now. Beef or mutton is cut into table joints, and partly cooked, after which each joint is successively immersed in pure stearine until it has acquired a firm coating of that substance impervious to the air, while it remains intact, and about three quarters of an inch in thickness. It has been proved that meat with a coating of this description on it was quite fresh sixty days after it was first operated upon. A few smart taps remove the stearine from the joints, which then are as presentable ns if they had been just cooked and allowed time to cool. The process of preparing the meat for the table is a simple one, consisting only of warming up, or rather completing the cooking which was commenced previous to the meat being submerged in the stearine. Provided that the meat can reach the English markets with its coating unbroken, there can be no doubt that it will find acceptance amongst consumers, for there is nothing, when the second cooking process has been accomplished, to distinguish it from ordinary cooked meat. The joints tested in this instance were legs of mutton preserved for six weeks by Mr Naylor, who, as far as he has gone, has accomplished a groat success. Mr Naylor believes that the stearine coverings of the meat will find a prompt sale in England, and that as he dispenses with tinning in his process, he will be able to land the meat there at a cheaper rate than that usually obtained for the preserved article. It is probable that he will shortly be able to make a trial shipment of some of the meat to England, and also engage in further tests here, promises of support in these directions having been held out to him.