Salted Horse

[lwhitehead]

Salted Horse is that Salt Cured Meat Beef or Pork or Fish,

 

 

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[Mission]

? Where did you see that? I've seen period accounts of salted pork & beef, the salting of fish, boars, seals and even penguins. But I don't recall ever seeing a mention of salted horse.

[Cascabel]

Salted Horse is a slang term used for any salt-cured meat.  The term was often used by soldiers in a derogatory fashion when referring to their low quality meat rations.  Actual salt cured horse meat is eaten in some Asian countries.  

[Coastie04]

For the salt cured horse meat in asian countries, how is it salted?  I read that most of the salt in Asia was traditionally transported and used as a brine (such as fish sauce, soy sauce, etc.) instead of as dried salt.  Would that still have similar curing properties?  Or would it essentially pickle the meat in a salty brine?

[Cascabel]

Quite a bit of info here :     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse_meat#China