- Paperback: 120 pages
- Publisher: Ebury Press; 4th Revised edition edition (4 Feb 1993)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0091778255
- ISBN-13: 978-0091778255
- Product Dimensions: 21 x 13.2 x 1.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (20 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 371,819 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'Full of detailed advice' --Independant on Sunday
--This text refers to the
Hardcover
edition.
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The author gives advice on how to make the best use of meats in season, how to avoid waste and how to provide yourself and your guests with home-smoked salmon, cod and herring, pheasant, grouse, turkey, beef, pork, venison and poultry. He also explains how to make your own kiln cheaply and easily. Former gamekeeper Keith Erlandson contributes regular articles to the "Irish Hunting, Shooting and Fishing Magazine" and writes a monthly column for "Shooting Times".
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107 of 107 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
One step beyond barbecuing - and it works,
By A Customer
This review is from: Home Smoking and Curing: How You Can Smoke-cure, Salt and Preserve Fish, Meat and Game (Paperback)
When Jane Grigson (Sophie's Mum) mentions and recommends someone else's food preparation book as 'excellent', it is as well to check it out. If you appreciate a level of advice such as 'Do not let your ducks catch fire', when discussing how to smoke fowl, and if you are fed up with 'over the top' recipes for smoking pork which include 'Wild Willie's Number One-derful rub', then you should read this book.Keith Erlandson is a retired gamekeeper, perhaps best known for his well respected books on training gun dogs. In his leaner years, he supplemented his income by curing and smoking fish and game. He therefore has the benefit of first hand practical experience when constructing smokers - which is sometimes lacking in other guides to smoking food. One such recommends using an old 'fridge for smoking, "but be careful not to get it too hot or the food will taint from the burning plastic!" Recipes cover hot and cold smoking, curing as preparation for smoking, and what to expect! If you have never tasted hot smoked chicken or turkey, or hot smoked fish, such as cod, haddock or sea bream, then this will be an eye opener. The directions work and the results are superb, even pork sausages taste special when hot smoked, and smoked eggs..... The more difficult cold smoking process is also explained in the sort of detail which allows you to start with confidence. Part travelogue, where he returns to his Scandinavian roots, one gets the comforting feeling that he is demystifying what is a very old fashioned and simple skill. If the price of the book bothers you, check out the price of even chemical smoked chicken.
55 of 55 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
If you only ever buy one book on this subject, buy this one.,
By Michael J. Love (Ballynure, Antrim United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Home Smoking and Curing: How You Can Smoke-cure, Salt and Preserve Fish, Meat and Game (Paperback)
I have to admit that I have read this book in an earlier edition, many years ago, and it was this book that gave me a lifelong interest in the subject. The new edition is greatly updated and very modern in style and prose, and has to be one of the easiest to read technical books ever written. The knowledge and enthusiasm of Mr. Erlandson are clear for all on every page and I would suggest that there is not one amongst us who could not successfully Smoke at home if we followed his advice! You will learn about the origins of the process, it's evolution through the centuries, pre-salting, brining, humidity, fuel, timing, storage and even how to cook cold Smoked foods in an excellent recipe section.
18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Newbie to smoking food,
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This review is from: Home Smoking and Curing (Hardcover)
As a newbie to smoking food, I was becoming somewhat disillusioned with the general 'internet' information so much so that my basic grasp on the subject was becoming confused. This book has if nothing else confirmed my belief that it is possible to knock something together in my back garden that will if nothing else give me a project to play with and hopefully not poison my family in the process. This book identifies the basic requirements, and identifies a few ways of achieving them, by identifying the simplistic nature of the solutions achievable by pretty much anybody. Regarding the actual smoking, a wealth of trial and error experimentation is offered in a pleasant read, I do not have access to, or a particular desire to smoke whole salmon, or cod roe, but I now have an understanding of the basics, and the knowledge that I need to get on and have a go to teach myself how to smoke a few sausages, a trout or a joint of bacon. All in all an encouraging start to my latest project from a book written in an informative, yet entusiastic and encouraing manner
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