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In the 1800s, Valentine’s Meant a Bottle of Meat Juice (atlasobscura.com)
47 points by CapitalistCartr on Feb 14, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 10 comments


That was not the kind of meat juice I was expecting (the Internet has ruined me), but it was somehow more horrifying. How did the meat juice not go quickly rancid without preservatives?


It's a pressure cooked consomme. It probably didn't taste great after packaging but there shouldn't be any microbes living in it after cooking and there's not much left to spoil/go rancid after filtering with the egg white


Turnover? Maybe it wasn't without preservatives?

Probably depends on the process, too; I've definitely used pretty old leftover bacon grease that was perfectly fine. When it goes bad you smell it.


Maybe salt?


For medical purposes, largely supplanted by intravenous therapy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intravenous_therapy#History


Some homemade chicken stock would be a great gift for me


Could Mann S. Valentine II be the first recorded neckbeard in history?


I use concentrated beef flavoring in some sauces. It's like liquid bouillon. Doesn't need refrigeration, much the same as bouillon I suppose. And all the salt in it helps too!



Any relation to what is now sold as "OXO"?




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