Carving and Serving

How to carve every joint on the table, 1887 — from the woman who wrote the Boston Cook Book, cut by cut.

The Thickness of Slices

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The Thickness of Slices

By "very thin slices of meat" we mean slices less than an eighth of an inch thick. "Thin slices" are from one eighth of an inch to three…

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