The Epicure's Almanac or Diary of Good Living
June 7th : TO RENDER MEAT TENDER
If you dip venison, beef, mutton, or pork, into chloride of lime in a liquid state, for a second, you may hang it for many days without fear of taint; for such is the effect of the chloride, that no flies will pitch upon meat that has been immersed in it.
Again, if you desire to dress a joint that you know has not been killed long enough to insure its being tender, cover it with a coarse cloth, and let it stand on the hearth of the kitchen fire, during the whole of the evening preceding the day on which you mean to dress it.
Meat should never be hung where the light of the moon can fall on it; as it is well known, from no less an authority than Lord Byron, that
" The Devil's in that moon for mischief;"
and one of chaste Dian’s vagaries is, engendering corruption in undressed meat and stored fruit.