A piece of delicious salted bacon is not only a dream of a Ukrainian. This is a versatile product that fits both a festive table and a camp one. The cooking process is laborious, but the result is worth it.
It is necessary
Pork lard, fresh - 1 kilogram, table salt - 1 kilogram, ground black pepper - 10 grams, allspice - 10 grams, bay leaf - 10 pieces, a saucepan or bowl with a volume of 3 liters - 1 piece, a linen cloth 50 centimeters in size on 50 centimeters - 1 piece
Instructions
Step 1
Get a nice piece of lard on the skin. Rinse the fat thoroughly in running water, scrape the skin thoroughly with a knife. The main piece of bacon must be cut into pieces of 200 - 300 grams. Chop bay leaves and mix with black pepper. Boil a linen cloth in salt water.
Step 2
Grate pieces of bacon with coarse salt, a mixture of ground black pepper and bay leaf. Take a bowl that will fit all the pieces of bacon. Put a small layer of salt on the bottom of the dish, put 7 peas of allspice and put a linen cloth on top. Put bacon on a rag and cover it with the rest of the rag. Put oppression weighing 1 kilogram on the bacon.
Step 3
Pour the prepared dishes with lard with a strong saline solution. The water temperature should be 40 degrees. Lard should stand in brine for 9 days at room temperature in a dark place. The saline solution should be changed every three days. After 9 days, remove the bacon from the brine and put it in the freezer for 1 day. Lard is ready to eat.
