Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1898 — A Big Boiled Dinner. [ARTICLE]

A Big Boiled Dinner.

Cooks in large hotels and boarding houses may think they get up meals on a big scale, says the Portland Transcript, but when it comes to wholesale cookery the little village of Liss, on the London and Southwestern Railway, England, surpasses them ill. At a barbecue held there not long ago an ox was boiled—not roasted—whole; and this is how it was done: A large hole was dug in .the ground and lined with brick. Inside this a tank large enough to hold the ox was built. The carcass was then lowered into the tank, having first been placed in a case formed by heavy cross-bars, to which chains were attached. Pulleys from • a scaffolding above were used to raise and lower the ox. Many vegetables, such as carrots, onions, cabbages and potatoes, were boiled with the meat The boiling required seven hours.