New England Boiled Dinner

• 5lb salt beef
• 8oz salt pork
• 1 cabbage

If the beef is very salt, soak it overnight; if it has not been in pickle for more than a week, it need only be soaked for an hour or two. Put the beef into fresh water and simmer for one hour. Pour off this water and cover the meat with fresh water. Add the pork and continue simmering for three hours. Cut the cabbage in quarters. Leave the potatoes in their skins. Simmer for one hour. Put the