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Salting could be combined with smoking to produce bacon in peasant homes. Instructions for preserving (salting) freshly killed venison in the 14th century involved covering the animal with bracken as soon as possible and carrying it to a place where it could be butchered, boiled in brine, and dry salted for long term preservation in a barrel.
Meat is soaked anywhere from 30 minutes to several days. The brine may be seasoned with spices and herbs. The amount of time needed to brine depends on the size of the meat: more time is needed for a large turkey compared to a broiler fryer chicken. Similarly, a large roast must be brined longer than a thin cut of meat.
Black Forest ham is a variety of dry-cured, smoked ham produced in the Black Forest region of Germany. [3] [4] Westphalian ham is produced from acorn-fed pigs raised in the forests of Westphalia, Germany, [12] [13] and the resulting meat is dry-cured and then smoked over a mixture of beechwood and juniper branches. [12] [14] [15] [13] [4]
It began to refer to the cut of pork derived from the hind leg of a pig around the 15th century. [ 6 ] Because of the preservation process, ham is a compound foodstuff or ingredient, being made up of the original meat, as well as the remnants of the preserving agent(s), such as salt, but it is still recognised as a food in its own right.
Aliya - smoked dish originally from the Luo tribe of Kenya. Bacon – a meat product prepared from a pig and usually cured; [13] [14] some versions are also smoked for preservation or to add flavor Back bacon; Baleron, Polish smoked pork neck cut; Brési; Burnt ends – flavorful pieces of meat cut from the point half of a smoked brisket [15]
17th-century diagram for a smokehouse for producing smoked meat. Smoked meat is the result of a method of preparing red meat, white meat, and seafood which originated in the Paleolithic Era. [1] Smoking adds flavor, improves the appearance of meat through the Maillard reaction, and when combined with curing it preserves the meat. [2]
The meat industry strives to produce meat with standardized and guaranteed tenderness, since these characteristics are sought for by the consumers. [4] For that purpose a number of objective tests of tenderness have been developed, gauging meat resistance to shear force, most commonly used being Slice Shear Force test [5] and Warner–Bratzler Shear Force test.
The smoking of food likely dates back to the paleolithic era. [7] [8] As simple dwellings lacked chimneys, these structures would probably have become very smoky.It is supposed that early humans would hang meat up to dry and out of the way of pests, thus accidentally becoming aware that meat that was stored in smoky areas acquired a different flavor, and was better preserved than meat that ...