Canadian Bacon (cured pork loin)

I’ve been curing pork belly for ‘American’ style bacon for over a year now, and thought I would make some ‘Canadian/British/Australian’ style of bacon, which consists of the loin.  Over here, you can get either ‘long-cut’ or ‘short-cut’ bacon, which essentially refers to whether the bacon consists of the loin and belly connected, or not,…

Maple, juniper berry and nutmeg cured bacon

I think I found one of the best mix of flavours for my bacon with this recipe.  In addition to using the standard cure, I added maple syrup, juniper berry and nutmeg (details below).  The bacon below was slow cooked in a pan before resting on some paper towel.   For the pork belly, leave…