Michael Ruhlman

Basic Dry Cure

Preparation info

  • Difficulty

    Easy

  • Makes

    1½ pounds

    basic cure

Appears in

From Scratch: 10 Meals, 175 Recipes, and Dozens of Techniques You Will Use Over and Over

From Scratch

By Michael Ruhlman

Published 2019

  • About

This is enough to cure about 30 pounds/13.5 kilograms of bacon. It’s a good mix to put together if you regularly cure bacon. It keeps indefinitely.

Ingredients

  • 1 pound/450 grams kosher salt (a scant 2 cups Morton’s kosher salt, for example)
  • 8 ounces/225 grams (1 scant cup) sugar
  • 2 ounces/56 grams pink curing salt (10 teaspoons)

Method

Mix all the ingredients and store in a zip-top plastic bag or airtight nonreactive container in a cool, dry place.

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