Cold Smoking And Salt Curing Meat Fish And Game

With this book, A. D. Livingston combines a lifetime of Southern culinary knowledge with his own love of authentic home smoking and curing techniques. He teaches how to prepare smoked and salted hams, fish, jerky, and game—adapting today's materials to yesterday's traditional methods. As he writes, “you can smoke a better fish than you can buy, and you can cure a better ham without the use of any chemicals except ordinary salt and good hardwood smoke.” This book shows you how, and includes more than fifty recipes—such as Country Ham with Redeye Gravy, Canadian Bacon, Scandinavian Salt Fish, and Venison Jerky—as well as complete instructions for: * Preparing salted, dried fish * Preparing planked fish, or gravlax * Building a modern walk-in smokehouse * Constructing small-scale barbecue smokers * Choosing woods and fuels for smoking * Salt-curing country ham and other meats

Introduces beginners to the ancient art of preserving meat, fish, and game with full-color photographs and clear instructions on how to select meats and avoid contamination, how to choose smokers, and how to use various tools. Also includes recipes for rubs, sauces, and marinades.

Smoke and cure everything from store-bought meats to freshly harvested fish and game! Drawing on more than forty years of experience smoking everything from succulent salmon to whole hogs, award-winning outdoor writer and photographer Monte Burch presents this practical handbook for anyone who wants to make their own smoked or cured products. The Complete Guide to Smoking and Salt Curing introduces beginners to the ancient art of preserving meat, fish, and game with full-color photographs and clear instructions on how to select meats and avoid contamination, how to choose smokers, and how to use various tools. This easy-to-follow guide also includes delicious recipes for: Rubs Sauces Marinades Ham Sausage Bacon And more! Whether you are a serious hunter or angler seeking to cure and smoke the fish and game you’ve harvested yourself or simply a consumer looking to stretch your grocery dollar while creating delicious smoke salmon or cured bacon at home, Burch will have you making mouthwatering meals in no time.

The author gives advice on how to make the best use of meats in season, how to avoid waste and how to provide yourself and your guests with home-smoked salmon, cod and herring, pheasant, grouse, turkey, beef, pork, venison and poultry. He also explains how to make your own kiln cheaply and easily.

From the legendary food columnist for Gray’s Sporting Journal, three of his good-humored, savvy, and down-to-earth cookbooks in one package From the late A.D. Livingston, longtime columnist for Gray’s Sporting Journal and renowned cookbook author who poured a lifetime of Southern culinary knowledge into his beloved cookbooks—three of his bestselling cookbooks in one amazing package! A.D. Livingston’s Big Book ofSausage, Jerky, and Smoked and Salted Meats gives every country cook—and sportsmen in particular—a down-to-earth guide to delicious ways to prepare pork, venison, beef, chicken, fish, and more by an author called “an American master.”

Preserve your meat properly and enjoy unparalleled flavor when you’re ready to eat it. This no-nonsense reference book covers all the major meat preserving techniques and how to best implement them. You’ll learn how to corn beef, pickle tripe, smoke sausage, cure turkey, and much more, all without using harsh chemicals. You’ll soon be frying up delicious homemade bacon for breakfast and packing your travel bag with tender jerky for snack time.

How to smoke a variety of foods, including turkey, cheese, sausage, fish, beef, nuts, wild game. A classic reference.

Today, with fridges, freezers and vacuum packaging you don't need to preserve your meat and vegetables, yet many food enthusiasts crave the unique tastes that develop from the chemical changes that occur during the curing process. Learn the treasured age-old techniques for smoking, salting, spicing, marinating, spicing, drying, pickling and potting by following detailed step-by-step instructions, guidelines, hints, tips and artfully displayed color photos. Whether you're a home cook, fishermen, wild game hunter or an inspiring chef, you can give as much of yourself as you like to these artisan crafts.