Victoria day Venison bacon

[Big Guy]

I ground up 6# of venison with 7# of pork chunks, divided it in half and made some salamis and some venny bacon. They are in the fridge overnight to meld the spices and will be smoked tomorrow and the salamis on Monday if there is still a world left.

Semi frozen venison and pork chunks

Grinding

all mixed up, stuffed and molded

Raw bacon ready to pepper crust

crusted

all 3 crusted and ready for the smoker

in the smoker

12 hrs of smoking and overnight in the fridge, they are ready to slice

all sliced and ready to package

test fry

on the plate

the recipe

Venison Bacon

2 lbs. Venison
2 lbs. pork
3 tbs. coarse salt
¼ cup brown sugar
1 Tbs. gelatin
1 tsp cure #1
1 cup ice water
Cracked black pepper
Grind pork and venison through a 3/16 plate, mix with ice water and spices, regrind. Mix well and pack into a 9x9 baking dish lined with saran wrap to make un-molding easy . Let set in the fridge overnight to set. Unmold from the baking dish and coat in cracked black pepper, then place in the smoker on a fine ¼ inch mesh.
Smoke @ 120 for 1 hr to dry. Increase to 130 and start smoke. Continue to increase smoker temp to 150 and smoke for 2 hrs. Finally increase temp to 170 and smoke to an internal of 155. Cool then refrigerate overnight. Slice and package.

 

[TERMINATOR101CA]

Dayum that looks tasty........wanna ship me a package of that bacon ?? rool:

 

[Sam Fisher]

Looks delicious.

 

[07blackwater]

That's awesome.

Another wild meat recommendation I have (sorry no pics but next fall I'll post some) is when you get a nice medium to large moose;

Take the briskets that are usually chucked in the meat grinder for burger and corn them like corned beef.

I've tuned a recipe that's awesome. Goes really good with cabbage. It's written on paper right now but I'll post it out if anyone one wants it.

 

[Pyd]

Awesome! Looks delicious!

 

[04rubicon]

good god that looks amazing. I am going to have to try that bacon

 

[Rob 22]

Thanks for the recipe I was just telling the wife I wanted to make something special this weekend and I think this is it.