Friday, October 30, 2020

A day of smoking

Today we helped check off an item on our neighbor's "bucket list." He has wanted to cure and smoke a pig. We built an old fashioned smokehouse from another neighbor's old barn boards.  The cured pork belly, hams, and shoulder roast -- in addition to some cheese -- went in this morning.  We built a fire in an old cast iron stove.  The cold smoke worked its magic for 6 1/2 hours.

We tested the cheese mid-afternoon.  It was yummy! The coup de grace was bacon as part of dinner. Everything was better than we imagined.  We'll definitely do this again next year.








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