Wintering preparations continue! I have been curing a two pound piece of pork belly over the last week and it was time to day to put that final touches on it: smoke! haha
I built myself a surprisingly, well working, little rig to smoke the slab in for only about 20$. The materials list included a small roasting pan, 4 metal skewers, a small tin of applewood chips/dust, a portable electric burner, and a cardboard box.
and the final product:
I think Alton Brown and MacGyver would be proud
Included this week for my preparations are beverages! Happy to say that my Pilsner is going quite fine, and really excited for it to start bottle aging in about another week or so. Just in time for the holidays. On the non-alcoholic side I made some simple apple cider following a 'recipe' that I found that dates back to the medieval times. It basically called for boiling enough apples in water with rosemary and sugar until it tasted right (no lie), then add a slice of lemon to the bottled liquid, so that's what I did. Ended up with 3 liters of it, all varying in shade of color..
The left one was pulled from the top, while the right was the very bottom.. will be interesting to see if/how they taste different from one another.
I built myself a surprisingly, well working, little rig to smoke the slab in for only about 20$. The materials list included a small roasting pan, 4 metal skewers, a small tin of applewood chips/dust, a portable electric burner, and a cardboard box.
and the final product:
I think Alton Brown and MacGyver would be proud
Included this week for my preparations are beverages! Happy to say that my Pilsner is going quite fine, and really excited for it to start bottle aging in about another week or so. Just in time for the holidays. On the non-alcoholic side I made some simple apple cider following a 'recipe' that I found that dates back to the medieval times. It basically called for boiling enough apples in water with rosemary and sugar until it tasted right (no lie), then add a slice of lemon to the bottled liquid, so that's what I did. Ended up with 3 liters of it, all varying in shade of color..
The left one was pulled from the top, while the right was the very bottom.. will be interesting to see if/how they taste different from one another.
Interesting recipe for cider you came across, never had cider with lemon and rosemary in it before.
The Apple-Drink with Sugar, etc, seems to be taken straight from the 1600s, which to me is pretty awesome in it's own right. It's def not your typical store bought cider, since it's basically apple flavored water.. which isn't really a bad thing hah