334 The most simple means of employing dead Animals. 



the fire, to one quarter of its volume, the liquor or broth in which 

 the food has been cooked, and turn it upon each of the pots filled 

 with the meat, well heaped up. 



If the cooked meat should be too lean to form a bed of fat in 

 each pot, it will be well to add any other fat matter which may be at 

 hand ; pot grease or any old fried meat, for example, which may be 

 melted for this purpose. 



The pots thus filled must be closed with their covers, or with 

 plates, bound around with strips of old linen, covered with a paste of 

 flour and water. These pots are to be kept in a cellar or any other 

 cool place, and when one of them is commenced upon it is to be 

 consumed as quickly as possible, to avoid its being spoiled, especially 

 if in the summer. 



An excellent method of preserving either the gelatinous liquor ob- 

 tained from cooking the meat or skin, or the flesh cooked and hashed 

 up, or finally the blood, consists in mixing these substances, sufficient- 

 ly salted, with the dough of bread ; the day following the baking, the 

 bread is to be cut into slices of from six lines to an inch in thickness, 

 these slices to be returned into the oven whence bread has just been 

 taken, the door of which is to be left open to facilitate the drying. 

 These slices, thus well dried, will keep many years, when put up in 

 dry barrels, and stowed in a granary. We may thus form very good 

 provisioning, either for men or animals ; it is useless to add, that for 

 these latter, we may employ, in making the dough, the cheapest flour, 

 and even bran. In order to make use of this bread, it may be treat- 

 ed with water, in the manner of obtaining a soup of ordinary con- 

 sistence. 



As it is probable that, notwithstanding the preceding directions, it 

 will not be at once determined in the country, to use the flesh of 

 dead animals for nourishment, and besides all the parts not being ap- 

 plicable thereto, we point out the other most simple means of deriving 

 advantage from their remains. 



Skins. 



When the skin cannot be sent to a tanner while fresh, it will be 

 easy to preserve it for some time by scraping off with a knife all the 

 flesh remaining upon it, then exposing it to the air, stretched upon a 

 line or nailed against the wall. If it be necessary to wait some 

 months for opportunity to send them to the tanners, it will be neces- 

 sary to soak them two or three days in water, to which has been 



