A.D. Livingston's Big Book of Meat

Written with A.D. Livingston's signature wit and wisdom, his Big Book of Meat is a down-to-earth guide to making sausage, jerky, and home-smoked and dry-cured meats easily and inexpensively in your own kitchen! This book explains how to:Choose the right equipment to make sausage and pork, venison, beef, chicken and fish.Create deli-style cold cuts.Dry and store jerky.Salt-cure country hams and other meats.Build a modern walk-in smokehouse.Adapt today's materials to yesterday's traditional methods.Choose woods and fuels for smoking.And so much more!As A.D. once said, 'You can smoke a better fish than you can buy, and you can cure a better ham without the use of any chemicals except ordinary salt and good hard-wood smoke.' All country cooks and sportsmen in particular will treasure this cookbook.