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  1. woodcutter

    50lb LEM tilting meat mixer

    I've been watching prices for a LEM 25lb tilt mixer to use with my grinder. This weekend The LEM 50lb mixer showed up on CL for a good price. Does anyone have any experience with the 50 lber? I'm wondering how well it works with smaller batches like 10lbs. It looks to work like the LEM hand...
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    20" Cast Iron Skillet

    Last June I saw a this pan on CL in Green Bay. I'm 90 miles away but my sister lived close so she looked at it for me. The seller wanted $50 in his ad but he didn't say it had a repair done to it. My sister thought it looked like it was braised in his dark garage. I wanted it for cooking over...
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    1st Ham from My Pig in Pop's Brine

    I mixed a gallon of Pop's brine and injected one of the hind hams from my pig. I injected along the bones and joints with a pointed injector tip. After that I switched to a broadcast tip and pumped brine into the rest of the ham. The ham was 24lbs so it is a big piece of meat to cure whole so I...
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    Bacon From My Pig.....Pop's Brine

    I had 20 lbs of side meat from my recent pig butchering adventure. I mixed 1 1/2 gallons of Pop's brine and submersed them in my bucket for 9 days. Here are a few pictures. Brine These free Sam's club frosting buckets are perfect for 4 1/2 slabs. I put this in the refrigerator for 9...
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    Cutting up my first pig.

    I bought a 250 lb Yorkshire mix pig from a farm yesterday. Its was quite an experience picking it up. I hoped the pig was going to be freshly killed and hanging from a tractor but it was taking a nap.  I was asked if I wanted to kill it but I declined. My friend went in the barn and said "wake...
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    Smoking White Fish

    I was given 5 Whitefish to try in the smoker. I scaled, cut in half and fileted the belly bones out and the skin is still on. I put them in a weak brine and will smoke tomorrow. 1 gal water 1 1/2 cup pickling salt 1/2 cup brown sugar 1 Tbs garlic powder 1 Tbs onion powder Because of work...
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    Country Style Pork Shoulder

    Boned, trimmed and cut up a pork butt today. Sliced  into strips and rubbed with Bilbo's rub. I felt like some smoke today so the AMNPS is lit at both ends with apple pellets and the frying pan has hunks of black cherry going at the same time. I think some fried potatoes would good with...
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    Enterprise Stuffer

    In January we were making sausage every week end and my stuffer broke down. The small cog that attaches to the handle snapped off. My daughters boyfriends were cranking and asking is it really this hard? I was giving them funny looks and told them I do this by myself all the time. There was a...
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    Triple Blueberry Buckle

    I eye balled my #14 Wagner and thought 4 batches would fit but decided to go with 3 batches and I was lucky because when it was cooking it was growing and just fit. BLUEBERRY BUCKLE 2 1/2 c. blueberries 1/4 c. butter. softened 3/4 c. sugar 2 eggs 1 tsp...
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    Ya know spring is right around the corner when you see the Kabanosy blooming

    I tried my new stuffer with these sheep casings. These were pretty large and I'm skeptical on how smaller sizes will fit on the plastic tube. I'm happy with the stuffer so far. I'll put these in the basement fridge and try to forget about them for a while. Thanks for looking!
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    Formed Bacon Snack Sticks

    Last winter, I started using a Formed Bacon kit and stuffing it into 4" casings as a sandwich/lunch meat. It really worked out well so this year I stuffed sheep casings for snack sticks. I had a 50lb kit left from last year in the freezer. I used straight pork butt which looked to be about 80/20...
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    Summer Sausage and Pulled Ham

    My family got together today (4 generations) for our annual sausage making day. We decided to to just make one sausage this year so we made venison summer sausage. We had pulled ham for lunch. I ordered some clear fibrous casings from Butcher Packer that I really liked. They are about 3 1/2 by...
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    Pea soup in the #10 DO

    Nancy tossed the Christmas ham bones in the DO this morning. The bones simmered/boiled for over 3 hours. She added split peas and a bunch of ham ends from the last batch of loins that I sliced up. It smells like my smoker in our kitchen today. These ends are intensely smokey and flavored...
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    Practicing Cast Iron Cobblers

    I've been trying different cobbler recipes and ended up liking a very common and simple recipe the best. 1 cup milk 1 cup flour 1 cup sugar 1 stick butter 3 tsp baking powder 1qt fruit Preheat oven to 350.   Use a 10 1/2" cast iron skillet Melt butter add milk and dry ingredients mix well...
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    Looks like Woodcutter will make it to 50.

    I'm an vacation and my 50th birthday is tomorrow so a whole brisket went in the smoker tonight. I'm using Fortheluvofsmoke's Wet/Dry chamber method. http://www.smokingmeatforums.com/t/141647/brisket-with-wet-to-dry-smoke-chamber-q-view-method. Trimmed it. I'm going to make summer sausage...
  16. woodcutter

    Maple over Maple

    Did a few chickens this week end. The chickens were so large the camp oven cover would not sit down till the chickens cooked for a while. The chickens were touching the cover for the whole cook but I managed to brown them a little bit. Maybe a little much. Nice lid full of Maple coals...
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    Chuck and Pork Roasts in the DO

    Yesterday we we decided to cook over the fire while we were doing yard work. I like the flavor of beef and pork cooked together so I made some comfort food. I'm doing and all night smoke on a couple of butts. I robbed 1/2 a butt for the DO. 4 cups of water and 2 packs of Lipton beefy onion...
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    Spares and Loin Backs

    Its been a while but I get to stay home this weekend and here is where my favorite smoker in world resides.  Wed, I pulled 3 spare rib packages from the freezer left over from making bacon. Thurs. morning I was thinking "not much on those spares" so I pulled a 3 pack of loin back ribs as well...
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    Ableskivers

    I acquired a Griswold Ableskiver pan a while ago and never had or heard of them before. I found a recipe on http://allrecipes.com/recipe/aebleskiver/. They are a Danish puff pancake and are really good. I added the batter to the holes in the pan about 1/8" from the top. The Ableskivers start to...
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    Curing Pork Butts for Pulled Ham

    I defrosted a 2 pack of butts this week and mixed up some Pop's Brine. I'm going to smoke them until the IT is 205 so they will pull apart like pulled pork. I trimmed the fat caps off and froze for sausage this winter and removed the bone from each butt. I tied the butts so the end that...
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