Re: [CH] Making Bacon

Jose Cisneros (jcisn@comcast.net)
Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:10:04 -0400

Hey Mark,

Thanks for the tips.
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> Five Spice powder is your friend. Are you using a salt cure or a 
> salt/sugar cure?

I normally use a salt/sugar cure.
I like using different sorts of sugar, jaggery, piloncio, palm etc.
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> I would go for one of Len Poli's recipes. This guy has roadtested all 
> his recipes out the wahzoo so you can be sure its a winner!
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> http://lpoli.50webs.com/index_files/Bacon-Chinese.pdf

Cool!
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> Instead of the Sichuan pepper I would sub some apple smoked hab powder 
> in the same quantity.

Sounds interesting. :-)
I haven't tried Sichuan pepper in a bacon cure yet, I have a bunch of 
the stuff so I may try that first.

Regards,

Jose
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