How to cure venison

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How to cure venison

Postby Trish the fish » Mon Feb 26, 2007 9:05 am

Hi,
I would like to know if anyone has tried curing a haunch of venison.
I am keen to try either a brine or dry salt cure but am too impatient for air drying.
Do you treat the venison just like pork?
Looking forward to hearing your words of wisdom - from a complete novice.
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Postby jpj » Mon Feb 26, 2007 7:39 pm

i dry cure them, then smoke them
and i treat them like pork just takes less time
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Postby Big Guy » Thu Mar 01, 2007 2:54 pm

I like to wet cure.
I make a brine of
1 cup coarse salt
1 cup brown sugar
1 tbs cure
20 cups water

inject the leg with about 10% by weight of the brine then submerge the leg in the rest of the brine. keep cool in the fridge for 7-10 days, remove hang to dry and smoke . I smoke it at 175F and apply a Maple smoke until internal temp is 160 serve hot! with lots of beer. It will be the beast venison you have tried.
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Postby Fallow Buck » Thu Mar 01, 2007 4:44 pm

Trish

Try the Breasola cure in HFW's book. It's a wet cure but noot an immersion cure if that makes sense!!

I made the breasola with a sirloin and it was really good but would benefit from a bigger peice of meat

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Postby Deer Man » Fri May 02, 2008 7:08 pm

Trish, I can recomend the pastrami recipe on Len Poli's site. It is excellent! I think i posted it on here I will check.

Yes here is the link http://forum.sausagemaking.org/viewtopi ... t=pastrami
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Postby vinner » Sun May 04, 2008 5:43 pm

Trish:

I have made the bresaola from len Poli's site many times, using the backstrap (large loin), but other cuts may work as well. Just cure and hang longer if using a thicker cut of meat.


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