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I made 25lbs of these. Used trim, leg meat and backfat. Smoked over three nights with beech. Froze some but most were air dried. It was a very simple garlic, pepper, salt, paprika recipe.
OK. Got you.
Smoke time: 3 nights/loads of amazn (~36h). Outside temp was around 0C. Dry time - 10 days for the first taste. Left them another couple of days after that - almost no bend left.
Did you take them to a particular IT, 150+/-, or is this more like a Salami, still raw? Was a Cure added or just the salt and drying to preserve it. Sounding better all the time...JJ
A friend of mine from Croatia makes these every year they slaughter a pig. Unfortunately it doesn't get cold enough in Louisiana to hang them outside to air dry after smoking they way he can in Croatia.