Brined Pork

Photo: flickr user Kent Wang

Ingredients

8 cups water

1/4 cup fine Sea Salt

3 tablespoons sugar

3 bay leaves

2 cloves

Stir this while bringing it to a boil. Let the brine cool.

Then soak the pork in it for 10 hours at room temperature.

6 hours if in chops. I like to put the brine and pork in a Zip Lock bag, then suck the air out of the bag.

Dry the pork well with paper towels. Now your pork is ready for any recipe.

Here are some other brines:12 cups water9 Tbsp fine Sea Salt1&1/2 cups brown sugar16 Tbsp molasses

4 cups Gin4 Tbsp Blk. pepper8 Tbsp Juniper berries5 Tbsp fine Sea Salt2 cups Maple Syrup

10 cups Water1 cup Sugar1/2 cup Sea salt12 juniper berries12 cloves12 black peppercorns3 bay leaves

Joe

1.0 servings

Monday, November 30, 2009 - 10:34pm

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