SM> Share!  I'm sure that both Swamp Moose and I would be interested.

 SM> The only interesting hot new thing I've come recently, in the food
 SM> department, is Brunswick sardines packed in "jerk sauce."  Have you
 SM> ever heard of this stuff?  ...Seems the primary ingredients are lemon
 SM> juice, sugar, salt, a "hot pepper powder" including chipotle and
 SM> cayenne peppers, onion powder, and garlic powder.  I'm betting on the
 SM> chipotle peppers being what gives it the most presence, but I'm
 SM> wondering if the lemon juice helps cut some of the sardine's
 SM> fishiness...

"Jerk Sauce" is the seasoning applied to beef or
> venison to flavor and preserve it, after which
application it is dried into "jerky" or "trail meat"
or, as the Original Americans called it, "Pemmican".  the sauce,
and the drying do for the meat as does wood smoke to fish, as employed by
the Southern Esquimeaux, those who have access to wood.  I have eaten jerky
several times and find it most palatable even with the chipotle and
cayenne, without which the meat would surely spoil for lack of
refrigeration.

One of the things that I have learned in my travels in the southern climes
is that though some humans savor hot sauces for the tangy taste it
provides, some consider the use thereof as a rite of passage and dare,
double-dare, and double-dog-dare one another to  partake of "Captain
Billy's seetthin Shromp Sauce", or "How to cook shrimp wothout a
fire."

Actually, though, the use of hot sauces. peppers and spices comes from
necessity, left over from the days when there was no refrigeration.



 SM> That probably isn't the sauce you're alluding too but, in hopes of
 SM> encouraging you to share you culinary secrets, I thought I'd mention
 SM> it.  Besides, I was already planning on asking Swamp Moose whether
 SM> he'd heard of the stuff.

I have had catalogues here in the past that touted several sauces and spice
mixes especially for making jerky.  One can spend a lot of money on that
stuff, the equipment, the additives, etc., Which I don't really understand
as the Original Americans did it withwht was available.

Kinda like a pair of $150 running shoes, $30 shorts, $45 shirt and $10
squeeze bottle filled with water at $9 per gallon, all necessary to run 5
miles throiugh the neighborhood.

The Greeks started this fad, they did it naked..




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