Smoked venison bacon

A few years ago I started looking at different things I could do with venison apart from cooking it. Charcuterie seemed to be the answer. One of the first things I looked at was the possibility of making venison bacon. I played with this idea until I got what I think is right. You can only make venison bacon from the larger deer species such as red, fallow and sika and you can only make it in the early part of the autumn when the deer are carrying a layer of fat on their backs.

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