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John's Journal... Entry 231, Day 4 JERKY - THE ULTIMATE SNACK FOOD Don't Worry About Mad Cow From Jerky: Food Safety of Jerky Editor's Note: At this time of the year, most successful deer hunters have a freezer full of venison. In just a few hours at night, with little or no preparation time, you can cut up some venison strips, soak them in the marinades that we recommend and dry your jerky in the oven, using toothpicks and a dripping tray. To help you solve the problem of responding when someone asks you, "What are you going to do with that freezer full of venison?" this week we'll offer some of our favorite, easy-to-prepare venison jerky recipes. Come to "John's Journal" every day this week to get new and different recipes for making venison jerky. You'll be glad you did. (Or, you can use beef to make jerky, if you're not fortunate enough to have plenty of deer meat). Drying food is the world's oldest and most-common method of food preservation. Canning technology is less than two centuries old. When you dry food, you remove moisture, which means that enzymes can't contact or react with the food. There are several ways to dry food. Two types of natural drying are sun drying and adibatic or shade drying that both occur in open air. The difference between the two is that adibatic drying occurs without heat. Before drying your meat, the USDA Meat and Poultry's Hotline recommends that to make jerky safe, you need to heat the meat to 160-degrees Fahrenheit before you begin the dehydrating process. Dad's Favorite Jerky: Mix all previous ingredients together, and pour over meat. Be sure that you stir the mixture into the meat so all gets covered. Then let sit for as long as you want. Came Seca: 1) Mix all ingredients to make marinade, and soak meat
in marinade for 24 hours. Berta's
Jerky: 1) Add mixture to meat, and marinate for 3 hours or more.
To learn more delicious ways to prepare venison, click here to find out about John and Denise Phillips' "Just Venison" CD. TOMORROW: JERKY: THE FIRST LOW-CARB FOOD
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Check back each day this week for more about JERKY - THE ULTIMATE SNACK FOOD ... Day 1 - From Frozen Venison
to Mid-Afternoon Snack
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