Dry-cured & Smoked Back Bacon From Free-range Pigs

£6.70

A delicious addition to any breakfast table! Great flavour and a lovely crispy fry! We home-cure our bacon using the traditional slow dry-curing method of thoroughly and carefully applying the cure by hand to each piece before leaving it to cure and then smoke.

 

Ingredients: Free-range Pork, Sea-salt,  Sodium Nitrite E250.

Storage: Keep refrigerated. Once opened, consume within 3 days and by ‘use by date’ shown. Suitable for home freezing.  

Pack size: 200g

INFORMATION ABOUT OUR HAMS AND BACONS

We home-cure our hams and bacons using the traditional slow dry-curing method of thoroughly and carefully applying the cure by hand to each piece before leaving it to cure. We don’t inject our hams or immerse them in brine for a quick-fix cure. Neither do we use cure-accelerators, colorants, colour-fixers or silica gel to make our hams absorb water to artificially increase their weight (all practices used by industrial ham and bacon manufacturers for the supermarkets).

INFORMATION ABOUT OUR HAMS AND BACONS

We home-cure our hams and bacons using the traditional slow dry-curing method of thoroughly and carefully applying the cure by hand to each piece before leaving it to cure.

We don’t inject our hams or immerse them in brine for a quick-fix cure. Neither do we use cure-accelerators, colorants, colour-fixers or silica gel to make our hams absorb water to artificially increase their weight (all practices used by industrial ham and bacon manufacturers for the supermarkets).

Our dry-cure is Sugar-free and  includes Sea-salt  and the minimum amount Sodium nitrite (E250). Excessive amounts of Nitrites and especially the more aggressive  Nitrates are unhealthy. We use the lowest possible Nitrite content as part of our dry-cure mix (less than 10 ppm as opposed to 250ppm used by mass producers of ham for supermarkets).  After curing and cooking, laboratory tests that we have had conducted demonstrate that the Sodium nitrite residue is reduced to less than 5ppm  (less than in a stick of celery, or that you might have naturally in your saliva). Sodium nitrite is an important constituent in a curing salt as it controls those microbes which cause food poisoning.  Our ham and  bacon are ‘nitrite-lite’.

Peelham pork from our neighbours’ high-welfare, Free-range pigs. For more information see our Product Provenance page.

Peelham pork from our neighbours’ high-welfare, Free-range pigs. For more information see our Product Provenance page.