This section is from the book "Experimental Cookery From The Chemical And Physical Standpoint", by Belle Lowe. Also available from Amazon: Experimental cookery.
Kind of meat | Number of roasts | Total weight of all roasts | Weight after cooking | Total cooking loss, per cent | Minutes per pound for cooking | Inner temper-ature when re-moved from oven, °C. | Maxi-mum interior temper-ature reached, °C. | ||
lbs. | oz. | lbs. | oz. | ||||||
Prime ribs, well done | 3 | 31 | 4 | 24 | 10 | 22.5 | 14.6 | 76 | 80 |
Prime ribs, medium | 5 | 60 | 9 | 47 | 10 | 21.7 | 9.8 | 65 | 70 |
Ham, boiled | 5 | 104 | 5 | 82 | 12 | 20.6 | 17.4 | 71 | 74 |
Ham, roasted | 7 | 126 | 15 | 94 | 7 | 25.6 | 14.1 | 72 | 77 |
Veal, leg, roast | 6 | 107 | 2 | 76 | 1 | 29.0 | 17.2 | 71 | 75 |
Lamb, leg, roast | 4 | 26 | 11 | 18 | 13 | 28.0 | 17.0 | 79 | 80 |
Pork loin, roast | 9 | 74 | 5 | 56 | 3 | 26.3 | 16.2 | 83 | 85 |
 
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