MEAT PRESERVING.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 14, Issue 1131, 1 March 1870, Page 5

MEAT PRESERVING.

(From the " Australasian,") A bemabkable luncheon was given on Saturday last, at B. U. Miller s dining" rooms, in Collins-street, by Robert Cald» well, managing partner of the "Victoria" Meat-preserving Company, whose process involves packing the rolled meat in tallow. ( The object was to give an entertainment which should exactly resemble— being no better and no worse — the famous Australian meat dinners at Norton Folgate, in London. It was a happy thought, and the tables were crowded with guests who had evidently been invited not to give eclat to the entertainment, but with a strict eye to business. The bill of fare | comprised—" Joints— braised beef, boiled mutton and caper sauce, and boiled beef and carrots. JEhitrees—rj)ota.toe pie, curried mutton and rice, haricot mutton; minced' meat and mashed potatoes, croquet rolls and dry hash." The excellence of the various dishes was amply testified to by the rapidity of their disappearance. Mr. Caldwell presided, and Ins explanations respecting the processes employed, the age of the meat, and other particulars U* lustrative of the object for which the luncheon was given, were listened to with great interest. Upon the table were exhibited two specimens of the new patent cases which it is proposed to use for meat-packing in future. They are shaped like the ordinary red gin cases, only larger, squarer, and far more substantial. They are lined with tin, and the two ex« hibited yesterday were described as foil of " mutton hams freed from all bone." While on the subject of meat-preserving we may mention that the new Australian Meat-preserving Company, upon the basis of Mr. Patrick Hayes s works at Foots* cray, and which is to be under his management, has been successfully floated, and nearly all the shares taken up. Opera* tions are to be commenced in March. Mr. Hayes proposes to abandon the rolling and tallow-packing processes, and pack in tins of sizes from 21b. and upwards. The Australia Felix Meat-preserving Company (limited), which was only started three months ago, has already not only fot its plant in working order, but has illed over 5,000 head, and shipped its meat by the Agamemnon, Anglesey, and Kent. The process is similar to that of the Victoria Company, the meat being cleared of bone and packed in cases when, passed from the pickling tub and rolled up, the rolls of meat being kept air-tight by boiling tallow being poured around the layers.