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Home Cured Bacon#5

Home Cured Bacon#5 recipe, eat well on universal credit

I’ve gone for a more British cure this time. Clearly in this flat I’d get in trouble for a actually Smoking Cured Meats and the yellow tinge on the ceilings would not be welcome. So I’ve improvised, as ever…..

Ingredients:-

1 Kg of Pork Lion, with some of the fat and rind removed (We’ll be making Pork scratchings out of that bit!)
30g of Salt
2g of Saltpetre
3 Tbsp of Smoked Paprika
4 Tbsp of Paprika
1Tsp of Turmeric

Method:-

(1) Cut the rind and the greater part of the fat off. You can make outstanding crackling from this bit!
(2) Mix the rub ingredients in a large bowl.
(3) Coat the meat evenly on all sides and pummel a bit. (Think of somebody who has done you wrong!)
(4) Place in a box with a lid. It doesn’t need to be air tight.
(5) Pop in the fridge and turn every day for the first week.
(6) After a week remove the lid and turn weekly to absorb any remaining juices.
(7) At 2 months / 8 weeks you’ll have the best Bacon you’ve ever tasted. The longer you leave it, the better it gets.

Notes:-

The really fatty cut of Pork was good on this occasion because the fat cures along with the meat and will melt in the pan when the curing process is complete, adding flavour to whatever we cook it with.

 

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Roasted Roadrunner leg with Rosemary! (Turkey leg)

We cheat with the Rosemary as there is a vacant B&B down the road with a Rosemary hedge. But it's inexpensive in the supermarkets.
 
The Turkey leg was a little over £4 but we had a hearty meal yesterday and we're making a Stock Pot casserole out of the lions share today which will feed the three of us for another two meals easily. So nine good servings from one leg.....
 
Ingredients:-
 
Turkey Leg complete
Butter or Margarine
Salt & Pepper
3 cloves of Garlic, minced 
3 sprigs of fresh Rosemary
Chicken stock (Made from the carcase and bones of the Chicken we had the other day)
1 Stock cube
Garlic Salt
Onion Salt
 
Method:-
 
(1) Add the Salt & Pepper and other dry ingredients to the Butter or Margarine.
(2) Rub over the skin of the leg and under the skin by separating the skin from the meat with a knife.
(3) Pour the stock around the leg in an over proof tray. 
(4) Pierce the meat with a knife and insert the Rosemary sprigs.
(5) Roast for an hour at 180c or until the meat as cooked through and the thickest part runs clear when pierced.
(6) Remove from the over and cover with foil and allow to rest for 10 minutes.
 
Serve with roast Potatoes and vegetables of your choice.

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