Friday, December 13, 2013

Satsuma Bacon

Based on my earlier Blood Orange Bacon.  Now, with percentages!

  • 1.26kg fresh pork belly (100%)
  • 31.5g TenderQuick (2.5%)
  • 81g Polish buckwheat honey (~6.43%, down from 12.8% sugar in the original)
  • 9g ground cinnamon (.7%)
  • 21.3g fresh Satsuma Mandarin zest (1.7%, up from 1.2% in the original)

And about 50g of water since honey turns it into a terrible lumpy mess.  I have to start using dry sugars; I haven't had a problem due to adding a bit of water yet, but I don't like it.

The thing about fresh zest, of course, is it's tough to precisely estimate the yield from whole fruit, or exactly what the effect of a given weight of zest will be, anyway.  It probably isn't worth worrying about it, the more the better.