Lonza
- boneless pork shoulder butt or boneless pork loin.
- Salt Rub:
- 20 parts salt
- 1 part allspice
- 1 part nutmeg
- 1 part black pepper
- 1 part granulated garlic
- 1 part sugar
- Vinegar Wash:
- 1 part vinegar
- 1 part water
- 3 garlic cloves
- 1 apple peel (for the malic acid)
- Heat mixture until very warm (not boiling)
- 1) Get a boneless pork shoulder butt or boneless pork loin. It's about a 4 lb cut of meat. When done, it'll be about 1 3/4 lb
- 2) Roll the pork in the Salt Rub.
- Place on a wooden rack in a warm part of your cellar. Note: the pork is going to "sweat" and fluids will run onto your floor. Place newspaper under the rack or place rack near a floor drain and rinse when finished. Let the pork sweat for at least 3 days, replacing the salt rub as necessary. The warm room that I saw in Jessup didn't have any special humidity controls. Just the concrete floor of a garage that leads to a drain.
- 3) For each day under the salt rub let the pork soak in cold water 60 seconds. Remove any visible salt rub.
- 4) With a soup ladle and while holding pork, ladle warm vinegar wash on pork until pork is fully exposed to vinegar wash solution.
- Heat mixture until very warm (not boiling)
- Don't rinse off the Vinegar Wash but pat it dry.
- 5) Sprinkle granulated garlic onto the entire surface of the pork.
- 6) Roll pork in pure ground black pepper.
- 7) Put pork into a brown paper "lunch bag". Roll bag so that the pork is tight within. Place brown bag into a clam bag and tie tightly. Tightly place 3 to 4 heavy rubber bands evenly on the pork.
- 8) Hang in 40 degree (ideal) environment for 60 days. Naturally our cellar in Jan, Feb, Mar, attains this temperature but you can cure pork also in a dedicated refrigerator as we spoke about.
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Taken from www.epicurious.com/recipes/member/views/lonza-50170881 (may not work)