Finally Cracked it!

[quietwatersfarm]

This has been a 4 year long side mission - project "Sunday Morning Bacon'

Trouble has been that I was only doing a revised cure every now and again when I got a moment, so each time it was wrong (to my taste) and needed amending it would be a couple of months before I got to taste the new effort - which was also invariably wrong too.

But truth is I am now happy!

1 Kg fresh pork belly
30g Fresh (fine) ground Coffee (Nicaraguan as it happens)
20g Fine sea salt
12.5g Muscavado Sugar
12.5g Cocoa Powder
2.5g PP1
2.2g Sweet Smoked Paprika
1.5g Vanilla Extract
1g ground Chipotle pepper


only thing now is to get the version with marmalade balanced!


-1 tablespoon cocoa powder

[ped]

Morning QWF
Could you elaborate on the PP1, is this another name for a common cure that is used and what is it comparable with in terms of understanding it's use?

[NCPaul]

Could you tell us more about the taste? Did you leave this unsmoked? What is the cocoa powder at the end of the recipe for? I'm glad you have succeeded.

[quietwatersfarm]

Ped - PP1 is Franco's Prague Powder (available on the site shop)

Paul - I did leave unsmoked but did put it in the oven and brought it gently up to temp before cooling. This help with the flavour development and I then sliced and fried.

Taste wise it had the good firm coffee flavour that I had wanted but the bitterness was avoided by the vanilla and cocoa. The pepper also set off both the coffee and the sweetness nicely.

This is not an everyday rasher, but one that I have been trying to nail down and this is about as good as I can get it for a luxury breakfast treat.

(please ignore the cut and pasted note at the end I hadnt put it all into grams until posting!)

[ped]

D'oh!!

Sorry, I always say cure1 so isn't part of my vocabulary