THRIVING after the FALL
Book One FEASTING after the FALL

The Menu · Small dishes and charcuterie

Salt pork

The pig Salt and brine

Its documents

The chapters that use them

In the log

The claims that cite its documents, the safety rows first.

  • S1 amended Safety Pink curing salt (6.25 % NaNO₂) at 2.5 g per kg meat, never more than 3 g; about 150 ppm ingoing nitrite
  • S3 amended Safety Vitamin C at 0.5 g per kg; rose hip or sea buckthorn as substitute
  • S4 amended Safety Strong brine 18 to 20 % for pork and fish; pork about 2 days per kg of thickness; fish 2 to 4 h fillets, 12 to 24 h whole
  • S10 amended Egg floats at about 10 to 12 % brine; potato floats at 3 to 5 %
  • S8 confirmed Saturated brine 26.4 % by weight = 100 °SAL; each 10 ° about 2.6 %