Cold-Smoking & Salt-Curing Meat, Fish, & Game - (A. D. Livingston Cookbooks) by A D Livingston (Paperback)

About the Book

Includes construction plans for a smokehouse and fifty recipes for smoked delicacies.

Book Synopsis

With this book, A. D. Livingston combines a lifetime of Southern culinary knowledge with his own love of authentic home smoking and curing techniques. He teaches how to prepare smoked and salted hams, fish, jerky, and game--adapting today's materials to yesterday's traditional methods. As he writes, "you can smoke a better fish than you can buy, and you can cure a better ham without the use of any chemicals except ordinary salt and good hardwood smoke." This book shows you how, and includes more than fifty recipes--such as Country Ham with Redeye Gravy, Canadian Bacon, Scandinavian Salt Fish, and Venison Jerky--as well as complete instructions for:

* Preparing salted, dried fish * Preparing planked fish, or gravlax * Building a modern walk-in smokehouse * Constructing small-scale barbecue smokers * Choosing woods and fuels for smoking * Salt-curing country ham and other meats

From the Back Cover

Authentic home smoking and salt-curing techniques--all delivered with A. D. Livingston's signature witIn this book, A. D. Livingston combines a lifetime of Southern culinary knowledge with his own love of authentic home smoking and curing techniques. He explains how to prepare smoked and salted hams, fish, jerky, and game--adapting today's materials to yesterday's traditional methods. "You can smoke a better fish than you can buy, and you can cure a better ham without the use of any chemicals except ordinary salt and good hardwood smoke," he says. This book shows you how, and includes more than seventy-five recipes--such as Country Ham with Redeye Gravy, Canadian Bacon, Scandinavian Salt Fish, and Venison Jerky--as well as complete instructions for: Preparing salted, dried fish Preparing planked fish, or gravlax Building a modern walk-in smokehouse Constructing small-scale barbecue smokers Choosing woods and fuels for smokingSalt-curing country ham and other meats

About the Author

A. D. Livingston writes a regular column for Gray's Sporting Journal and is the author of more than a dozen cookbooks, including Cast-Iron Cooking; Cold-Smoking and Salt-Curing Meat, Fish, and Game; The Curmudgeon's Book of Skillet Cooking; Jerky; Sausage; The Freshwater Fish Cookbook;The Whole Grain Cookbook; and On the Grill. He cooks, fishes, hunts, and writes.