The Christmas Bacon is done!

[Friar_Tuck]

Well, our two kids, their spouses, and the 3 grand daughters will be here for the weekend, so I needed to get some bacon done to send home with them.  I try to send em each 10 Lbs of bacon, 10 Lbs smoked cheese, and 10 Lbs of sausage.  Need to get the sausage done yet.  This is a very simple bacon cure, it is a hybrid of a few great recipes I have found here.
For every pound of belly:
1 Tbspn MTQ
1 Tspn onion powder
1 Tspn dark brown sugar
1/2 Tspn Garlic powder
Dry rub the cure on the belly, then close it in a ziplock, then on day 3 pour in a good amount of apricot syrup.
Day 7 rinse, soak 1/2 hour, rinse again, allow to dry, and smoke it up!

[Quarlow]

Man that is going to be great. Nice job F-T. Looks pro to me.

[Friar_Tuck]

Thanks Quarlow,
Anything I know about bacon is thanks to this place!
Jim

[Quarlow]

Yeah this place rocks the food world for sure. Have you try Habs CBB. Damn good stuff.

[Friar_Tuck]

This cure started as Habs!
I just cut down the Garlic, and added the apricot syrup.
Tried it because apricot syrup is so much cheaper than maple syrup, and found I like it even better.

[Quarlow]

It definitely sounds tasty. It looks great.

[squirtthecat]

Sounds great!

Apricot syrup, eh...   

[SouthernSmoked]

Looks good Jim!!!

[TestRocket]

Can I come up for the weekend too?  ;) Looks great!  ;D

[Friar_Tuck]

And the money shots!

[jiggerjams]

Way to go!! Wish I could use more than my eyes to experience the Christmas bacon.

[MidKnightRider]

Nice load of bacon!

[Quarlow]

sweet haysuis, look at that bacon. man o man that is some goodlooking vittles.

[jiggerjams]

Heavenly!!

[hal4uk]

sweet haysuis, look at that bacon. man o man that is some goodlooking vittles.

DANG!!!!  What Q said!