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Vanilla-Brown Butter Cure

$15.00

On June 23, 2015 at 9:01pm, I sat up in bed, grabbed my phone and typed this message:

Vanilla bacon was a nightmare. Batch after batch of cloyingly sweet bacon, all trying to wrest even a hint of vanilla from ether. These were the dark times.

I gave up on vanilla bacon. But it never gave up on me. Almost exactly a year later, I got this vision: if there is hope, it lies in vanilla salt.

Oh, you fool, younger me! So much heartache! So much sadness! It was in the salt the whole time!

There’s a lot of subtlety going on here. Vanilla plays off the sweetness of the brown butter solids, but bay steps in and plays the diminished fifth in our jazzy chord, making these sweet flavors at home in a savory world.

Cure a pork loin in this stuff, slice it thin, and make eating lunch at  your desk something to look forward to!

SKU: vanilla-brown-butter-cure Category:

Description

Details:

  • Credit where credit is due. The flavor combination here comes from this fine tome.
  • Makes about 6-12 batches. The actual number depends on what you’re curing, of course.
  • Subtle flavors like this would benefit from a full two weeks of curing, if you can spare it.
  • Handmade by a real person in a real kitchen in a real place called Colorado.

Special Notes:

  • Comes with real bits of vanilla and bay leaf right in the container. By all means, make sure these get into the curing bag, but make extra sure to wash the bay leaf off before cooking. Nobody likes a big ol’ hunk of bay leaf in their mouths.
  • Except koalas, I bet. Or pandas.

Ingredients:

Also Includes:

  • Recipe Card

Additional information

Weight16 oz
Dimensions2.6875 x 2.6875 x 6 in

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