How did people preserve meat back then?

Answer 1

By drying or salting it.

Answer 2

In the past, people salted and dried their meat in order to keep it from spoiling as fast as fresh meat. Indians made pemmican, frontiersmen made jerky, etc. Smoking was another way to keep meat from going bad. Now, salted and smoked meat and fish is often a delicacy instead of a necessary way to keep food throughout the year.

Answer 3

Prior to modern refrigeration, food was preserved by drying, pickling, smoking and salting.

In the Northern areas, some foods were hung to chill and freeze in a sheltered area, usually a closed barn, so that wild animals could not get at it.

Answer 4

Meat could be:

• Dried in the open air
  
• Smoked over a fire
  
• Salted
  
• Sunk into cold lakes to preserve it
  
• Frozen in the open air
  
• Mixed with fat and berries then pounded into pemmican
  
• Allowed to ferment under anaerobic conditions (like Surströmming)

Answer 5

The food was stored in refrigerators made out of salt because salt is preservative.

Answer 6

Meat used to be preserved in salt!

Or it was cut into small pieces and dried.

Answer 7

By drying or salting it.