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A Guide to Canning, Freezing, Curing & Smoking Meat, Fish & Game

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This no-nonsense guide to canning, freezing, curing, and smoking meat, fish, and game is written in down-to-earth, informative, everyday language. The third edition of this perennial bestseller is completely revised and updated to comply with the latest USDA health and safety guidelines. Includes dozens of delicious recipes for homemade Beef Jerky, Pemmican, Venison Mincemeat, Corned Beef, Gepockelete (German-style cured pork), Bacon, Canadian Bacon, Smoked Sausage, Liverwurst, Bologna, Pepperoni, Fish Chowder, Cured Turkey, and a variety of hams. Learn tasty pickling methods for tripe, fish, beef, pork, and oysters. An excellent resource for anyone who loves meat but hates the steroids and chemicals in commercially available products.

192 pages, Paperback

First published January 12, 1975

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January 11, 2014
This was a fun future-possibilities read: I've been witnessing the meat drying process in Hangzhou and Suzhou (though hanging fish carcasses next to busy car exhausted streets seems to me a different version of the English style tobacco-pipe steeped pubmeat) and wanted to learn more about meat smoking. The text has fantastic diagrams for smokehouses (both cold and hot) as well as excellent tips on the now-outlawed process of aged meats. The brines were excellent, and the review of butcher wrapping invaluable (Stop with the plastic baggies! The oceans are clogged with plastic as it is and they don't work as well for the retaining power of waxed paper and careful folds!) The only part of this text I couldn't enjoy was the canning: maybe I am prejudice, but canning meats is just weird. I'd rather dry, smoke, or cold store any day!
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September 13, 2021
I purchased this book because I wanted some guidance on how to preserve meats beyond canning and freezing (which I've done) and wanted some recipes to try. Excited to try my hand at making the pemmican recipe in this book and learning better techniques for smoking meats. Handy, smaller reference book.
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