Air-dried meat

Air-dried meat

1) To prepare brine of such concentration that fresh crude egg floated in it. It is strong salt solution. When in it lower fresh crude egg, it will plunge into brine and will emerge - only the blunt end of egg, about 2,5 cm in the diameter will be visible.
On 1 liter of brine it is necessary about 4-4,5 full (with hill) salt tablespoons, but it depends on salt and the size of spoon.
To add bay leaf, carnation, allspice to divorced brine, to boil and cool. After cooling of spice to remove from brine.

2) Properly to wash fresh meat (pulp) under flowing water, to put in cold brine, to close cover and to clean in the refrigerator for a while from 1 to 3 days. Time depends on the size of steak and desire of degree of its prosolka.
During prosolka it is necessary to overturn meat in brine 1-2 times a day.
The main thing that brine was more since the juice emitted from meat will reduce concentration of salt in solution. So the more the better - meat excess salt will not take brine, but in brine it has to float freely.

3) In 1-3 days to get meat from brine, properly to dry napkin and to put approximately for 1 hour the baking plate bends on the inclined plane that from it the brine rest was wrung out and has flowed out.

4) Then properly to grate meat with mix of dry seasonings and plentifully to roll in in them from all directions.
To take dry ground spices for mix to taste, but among them there has to be in enough also chili powder since it possesses the good preserving properties.

5) To inwrap the meat rolled in seasonings in pure dry gauze and to sustain in the closed ware 1 week in the refrigerator on the average or lower shelf.

6) In week to replace gauze (thus in addition to roll in in mix of seasonings) and to suspend in well aired place. For example, under ceiling in kitchen. On photo meat in gauze is suspended to eaves for curtains.

In 1-2 weeks air-dried meat will be ready.
It is especially convenient to cook air-dried meat in cold season when heating since at this time air in the apartment dry works

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