Dried meat

[Angel]

This one probably isn't very medieval, but it's damned yummy and makes good event snack food.

Biltong flavoured jerky

500g schnitzel
1/3 cup of whole coriander seeds, crushed (put it in a plastic bag and bash it with a rolling pin)
1/4 cup brown sugar
1 T salt
1/2 t ground pepper
vinegar

In a bowl, mix together coriander, brown sugar, salt & pepper.

I put white vinegar in a spray bottle, and spritz each side of the schnitzel, then slice it into strips, and chuck it in the bowl with the other ingredients. Mix it all around until everything is evenly coated, and chuck it in the fridge overnight. In the morning, fill a soup bowl with 1/2 cider vinegar and half water, and give each bit of meat a quick dip before laying it on the dehydrator tray. Dehydrate for 8 hours.

[Thaner]

there's a shop down the road from my house called "a taste of south africa" and they have the meanest biltong ever, used herbs from south africa

[Bogue]

Thaner metioned this:-

[Thaner]

they use imported meat, imported spice, and it's only $14 /kg, also make boerwors and droewors from imported meat also

it's absolutely fantastic, the flavour is out of this world (or country LOL) my brother married a afikaans lady, and she gets me to buy that, and koeksisters also (desert sausage)

[pmel018]

I think boerwors is the worlds best sausage A great coil of it cooking on the barby, man that takes me back. Black pudding is great in its place but the boerwos is the king of sausage.
Phil

[Thaner]

i LOVE black pudding, and the ever ellusive white pudding

[ChronicD]

Hey guys

A good friend of my family owns a shop in petone called Ontrays. Its on Fitzherbert St is green and has a south african flag outside. they imports quite a few items from SA including biltong. Though alot of his biltong comes from within NZ. I think they had 4 very good suppliers making druavors and regular biltong. they also have buravors (spelling ???) and Pronutra, mrs balls chutney - i dont know the list goes on.

They also have a huge range of booz from SA and olives and cheese from NZ.

While your there you can also visit Justins shop just down the road

If you go to either say hi from me

oh and the other thing that Ontrays stock are poikies (again spelling???) which are the SA camping cast iron pots - look a bit like cauldrons.

The last thing to say is make your own - its so much fun!!!
I use a wooden box with a incandescent bulb in it - hang the meat in there for a couple of weeks and viola

My tuppence
Dan

[Thaner]

my brother worked at Ontrays for a while, he'll never, ever, step foot in that place again.

My mum mentioned a few weeks back that there was a "medieval armour" shop in petone, I told her that it would be Justins shop, and that I wanted Gauntlets and swords and armour, as ya do, late last week that she was in petone for a meetings and would I like her to buy me some stuff (she was actually after a Lucet, and anything else that took her fancy) but the shop was shut up tighter than canned ham

This lady is sitting on close to half a million, and she wanted to spent money on armour

Stupid shops not being open!

[ChronicD]

Oh dear, so your brother got the sharp end of the stick from them - cant say i am particularly surprised. I certainly would never want to work there. I just go there for the biltong

As for Justins shop being closed - well i cant say i am particularly surprised there either... "sigh"

Lastly i would dare say i dont think your mum would like you talking of her personal business on a medievil forum;)

Still silly shop

D

[Wellybex]

Justin is still making stuff if you want to buy stuff, go to his website

[Angel]

One of the suppliers of biltong and assorted sausage for Ontrays is in the block of shops at the end of my street.

Now who else has dried meat recipes?

The term jerky is based on a South American word for dried flesh, which was quite often llama.

[merrynsmoor]

You can make it on a low heat in the oven with the door open too if you don't have a dehumidifyer... Just put it at like 100C for 8 hours or so.

http://beefjerkyrecipes.com/

Endless possiblities!

I got a tasty gingery one last batch.

[gt1cm2]

[Angel]

[NigelT]