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Air dried cured meat and salami recipes

Postby johnfb » Fri Feb 13, 2009 7:20 pm

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Postby saucisson » Fri Feb 13, 2009 7:42 pm

steady on john, 4 days to go yet :lol:
Curing is not an exact science... So it's not a sin to bin.

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Postby johnfb » Fri Feb 13, 2009 9:04 pm

Yeah, but it's the weekend man...get boozing.....hic!!
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Postby Rough Country Boy » Sat Feb 14, 2009 8:26 am

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Hey Dave, please let's know how it turns out mate.

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Postby saucisson » Sat Feb 14, 2009 7:10 pm

I boned the joints this morning (leaving 1.4kg meat each joint) and rubbed them inside and out with 28g salt, 2.8g cure #2, a sliced clove of smoked garlic (I just happened to have it smoked) and a heaped teaspoon dried mint and the same again of dried rosemary. I would have used fresh herbs if I had them in stock, but I wasn't going to pay supermarket prices for a mint sprig :). They're now bagged up and in the fridge.

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Postby Rough Country Boy » Sun Feb 15, 2009 7:14 am

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And why is my mouth watering already?

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Postby johnfb » Sun Feb 15, 2009 9:16 am

saucisson wrote:I boned the joints this morning (leaving 1.4kg meat each joint) and rubbed them inside and out with 28g salt, 2.8g cure #2, a sliced clove of smoked garlic (I just happened to have it smoked) and a heaped teaspoon dried mint and the same again of dried rosemary. I would have used fresh herbs if I had them in stock, but I wasn't going to pay supermarket prices for a mint sprig :). They're now bagged up and in the fridge.

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Dave, did you take any photos???
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Postby saucisson » Sun Feb 15, 2009 11:47 am

No, my hands were full while I was boning out the joints :) I took some last night though. I'll get them up.

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Postby johnfb » Sun Feb 15, 2009 12:02 pm

Excellent looking forward to them!
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Postby saucisson » Fri Mar 27, 2009 7:01 pm

Gosh, did I really leave them in cure that long :oops:

Into the smoker tonight :) Pictures to follow...

Maybe :)
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Postby johnfb » Fri Mar 27, 2009 7:25 pm

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Postby saucisson » Fri Mar 27, 2009 7:47 pm

Patience my young Padawan, all will be revealed to he who waits :D
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Postby johnfb » Fri Mar 27, 2009 7:58 pm

AND PICTURES TOO!!!!!!!!!
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Postby saucisson » Sat Mar 28, 2009 12:28 am

Well here they are :)

Traditionally they are square? So at some point they must be molded and I suspect they are dried that way. I can't think how you would do that conveniently, so here they are squashed into loaf tins to cure to square them off :

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Out for a belated rinse and an afternoon drying in the bath, next to a loin and a slab of belly pork destined for bacon, before smoking:

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Some of the garlic slices have taken on an interesting colour, it took me a while to work out what they were :)

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They went into my soup at lunchtime...

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Postby Rough Country Boy » Sat Mar 28, 2009 7:43 am

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