Sweet Lebanon Bologna

[nepas]

Doing some easy sweet lebnun. Not using F-RM-52 for culture.

5 lbs of lean GB


Here is the dry.

Lt brown sugar (didnt have dark)
dextrose
salt
black pepper
ginger
cure 1
mace
cinnamom
cloves
mustard (colemans dry)
fermento or Saco if you have it.




Mixed the cure with 1/4 cup cold distilled water, dissolve and add to the meat.



I took all the dry (except brown sugar) and combined and put in a shaker.


All the mixing is done by hand


Here the brown sugar is added. Yeah i know the meat is cold and you getting old, you will have a better end product.



Brown sugar mixed in. Would have been darker with the dark sugar.



Now sprinkle in the remainder of the dry. You can add water if you need to.



Here is the mix after everything has been added. Note the color change.



Going to fridge this as i have other things to do. Stuff smoke tomorrow,

[TentHunteR]

I love Lebanon Bologna (although I prefer the regular better than the sweet).

Will you be doing a traditional cold-smoke, ferment & dry cure with this or will you hot smoke & cook it?  I'm guessing hot smoke since you used cure 1.

[nepas]

I love Lebanon Bologna (although I prefer the regular better than the sweet).

Will you be doing a traditional cold-smoke, ferment & dry cure with this or will you hot smoke & cook it?  I'm guessing hot smoke since you used cure 1.

Going to hit it with between 120-130* for a long cold. I ran out of f-rm-52 or i would have fermented it.

[teesquare]

Gonna try the kaut juice trick we talked about...?

[nepas]

Gonna try the kaut juice trick we talked about...?

Was going to but went a diff route.

[nepas]

Had some concern about one the casings so i decided to cut the one early.




Guess it was just me.



Kinda not my normal sweet bologna, not using dark brown sugar and the f-rm-52 fementation the bologna didnt have the sharp tang.

Still a good eat.

[TentHunteR]

Yeah, Dark brown sugar has more molasses, but it sure looks like it'd be good for munching.  Some of that bologna on good crackers with a little Amish Baby Swiss - YUM!

[sparky]

slice some up for me and make a damn sandwich already.  i'm hungry.   

[Sam3]

Looks really good Rick.