Keto Means
Keto Means
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To make dry-cured bacon the old- fashioned way, the curing ingredients, salt, sugar and sodium nitrate (saltpeter) were rubbed into the meat, which is left to cure for a couple of weeks before smoking with hickory or oak, apple wood or corn cobs, depending on the packer and what natural fuel was available.
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Read More »If our pioneering forefathers had had to rely on the supermarket bacon of today as the staple of the long trek "westward-ho-the-wagons," they wouldn't have made it much past Pittsburgh. No meat in America has suffered more from modern technology than bacon. The insipid watered-down stuff that is labeled "bacon" today is as far removed from real bacon as a horsefly is from the horse it rode in on. Most of the bacon that you find in today's meat cases is "pumped" bacon. What that means is that the curing solution made up of water, salt, sugar, sodium phosphate (to hold the water in) and sodium nitrate is pumped into the pork belly with a machine made up of an arsenal of hollow needles that quickly distribute the cure through the meat and accelerate the curing process. It takes only a few hours with today's chemical and meat processing technology to produce a product we still call "bacon" but which, in this butcher's opinion, cannot compare to the real bacon of a generation ago. If you have never tasted good old-fashioned dry-cured bacon, you have never tasted REAL bacon. It used to take a lot longer to make, but the end result was worth the wait. Dry-cured bacon is not pumped full of water in the process of curing the meat. Just the opposite. To make dry-cured bacon the old- fashioned way, the curing ingredients, salt, sugar and sodium nitrate (saltpeter) were rubbed into the meat, which is left to cure for a couple of weeks before smoking with hickory or oak, apple wood or corn cobs, depending on the packer and what natural fuel was available. An old pamphlet from the University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension's Service describes the process: "Dry-curing bacon -- an excellent sweet bacon can be made by using a mixture of 3 pounds of salt, 1 3/4 pounds of sugar, and 3 ounces of saltpeter per 100 pounds of trimmed sides. Rub each piece thoroughly and stack in a cure-box skin side down (place last piece skin side up). Leave in cure two weeks. Remove, wash in lukewarm water, allow to dry, smoke and store in a cool, dry place." The bacon that results from such a process doesn't shrivel up to nothing in the frying pan as the water evaporates from it. Most of the water has been drawn out of the meat, rather than pumped in, in the curing process. When you've finished cooking dry-cured bacon, and the room is filled with that wonderful, mouthwatering aroma, you still have meat in the pan.
Eggs are a healthy food and fit nicely into a keto diet, as they contain next to zero carbs but provide fat and protein. Eating whole eggs provides...
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Peanut butter can definitely be part of a keto diet, but it's best to stick to plain options that are free of extra flavors and sweeteners. Almond...
Read More »Dry-cured bacon is not the easiest stuff to find these days; most meat cases are stuffed with that other stuff, but it is still available. There are several producers of good old-fashioned country hams and bacon in various parts of the country that make dry-cured bacon available by mail order. If you'd like to try some of the best bacon in America, you might want to write or call for some catalogs. Following is a list of processors making some of the finest dry-cured bacon in the country. All of them have won honors for their products in the "American Cured Meat Competition" held each year by the American Association of Meat Processors.
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