Fixing a screw-up
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2012 13:38
Yesterday I was measuring salt,cure#1 , cracked black pepper and sugar for annointing a pork picnic shoulder that I had cut into inch thick slices. It is 4 kilograms so the calculations were easy, 15 grams of salt for each kilo and a half teaspoon of cure and a tablespoon of sugar. The salt weighs 12 grams per tablespoon so I shoveled in five spoons of salt and two teaspoons of cure#1. Then mindlessly picking up the salt instead of the sugar I shoveled in five more spoons of salt. I realized my error and added two more teaspoons of cure#1 then mixed everything carefully and divided the result into two portions and saved the one. Then I added the sugar to the mix and stirred in a tablespoon of molassas diluted with two ounces of water. and proceeded from there.
