My first bacon!

[hardwoodjoint]

Hi all,

I've smoked my first bacon and it was great.
I bought a piece of belly pork (1.3Kg) and left it in a brine cure for 7 days (probably too long), dried it off in the 'fridge for 2 days then smoked it in the Weber.
I used 4 lumps of charcoal and 4 chunks of hickory to smoke it, 2 hours.
Cooled it in the fridge and next day used some in a spaghetti dish and it was DELICIOUS.
S.W.M.B.O says it was great and I can do it again!
Trouble is I used the last tonight so I'll have to wait a week before the next lot is ready. This time I'm going to add some honey to cure, or should I use brown sugar?

Cheers all from sunny Australia
Tony

[Jogeephus]

I've used mollasses and cane syrup as well. Can't say which way to go as they were all good if you like it a bit sweeter. Got some curing now with cane syrup as it was cheap and plentiful.