Sugar Cure for Pork, Bacon, Ham
- Ready In:
- 264hrs
- Ingredients:
- 6
- Yields:
-
1 bacon
ingredients
- 2 1⁄2 lbs salt
- 2 gallons water
- 1 ounce saltpeter
- 1 ounce baking soda
- 1 lb brown sugar
- 1 ounce black pepper
directions
- Double this mix as much as you have meat.
- Weigh down meat so that it remains covered.
- Be sure to boil plent of water day before so it is good and cold.
- Put your meat in wood barrels or vinegar stone crocks.
- Leave small boned meat chunks submerged for 2 days.
- Bacon submerged for 4 days.
- Cut hams and shoulders 14 days.
- Whole hams 21 days.
- Storage area must be extremely cold, but not freezing to prevent fermentation.
- After submersion, run thick thread through corner of meats and hang in smokehouse.
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