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Build a Smokehouse
This booklet explains the basics of smoking and gives you directions to build 4 different smokers and smoke houses. They vary from a hot smoke pit to a permanent concrete smokehouse. 32 pages.

Build a Smokehouse Booklet


The Big Book of Preserving the Harvest
by Carol Costenlader & Johanne Lamb Hayes
This book is one of the most popular publications available on the subject of canning, drying, freezing, pickling and cold storage of fruits and vegetables, herbs and meats. Learn every aspect of creating and preserving jams, jellies, soups, relishes and much more. Loaded with hundreds of recipes and tips. A real encyclopedia about preserving fresh food. 330 Pages.

Preserving the Harvest

 

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Home Sausage Making by Charles Reavis
A complete guide for the home sausage maker. This book discusses equipment, ingredients, stuffing, curing, smoking and preserving using all types of meat, poultry, game and fish. A heavy emphasis is placed on the health aspect of making and eating sausage and cured meats. There are hundreds of recipes for delicious, low-salt, low fat dishes and sausages. If you want to enjoy the wonderful world of sausage making, but still watch your salt and fat intake, this book is right on. 168 pages.

Making and Using Dried Foods by Phyllis Hobson
The author explains how to dry almost every type of food – vegetables, fruit, meat, herbs and grains. She explains
how to preserve foods easier and less expensively than canning or freezing, and at the same time preserving the
nutritional value in the foods. Learn to make your own dehydrator, or dry in the sun, oven or microwave. The book is loaded with valuable information. 182 pages.

Amazing Venison Recipes by Jim Zumbo
Jim Zumbo has filled this book with tips on cooking venison, starting with proper field care and butchering, then giving you the pointers from his vast experience in cooking. Chapters on marinades, snacks, steaks, roasts, soups and chilies, ground meat, casseroles, jerky and sausage round out this informative publication. Over 200 recipes fill the 215 pages in this publication.

Jerky by A.D. Livingston
If it walks, flys or swims this book will show you how to make jerky from it. Make jerky from ground meat, meat
strips or chunks of meat. This book covers jerky making from the pioneer days up to the modern methods of
today. Learn to make jerky in the dehydrator, the oven, a smoker, in the sun and other ways. There is a whole
section on venison jerky. Loaded with recipes, this book is a must for the jerky maker. 144 pages.

The Canning, Freezing, Curing and Smoking of Meat, Fish & Game by Wilbur Eastman, Jr.
A very comprehensive book that goes into the various methods of preserving meats at home. In addition, it talks about cold smoking, building a cold smoker, meat cutting methods for domestic meat, fish, and large and small game. Thirty pages of recipes for beef, jerky, corned beef, fish, and sausages round out this publication. There is a wealth of information in this book. 208 pages.

Venison Sausage Cookbook by Harold Webster, Jr.
This newly copyrighted book is loaded with up to date information on all aspects of sausage making. It covers
dealing with bacteria, types of sausage, cures, grinding, casings, stuffing, patty making, operating and building a smokehouse/cooker. There are 80 pages of venison sausage recipes and 100 pages of venison sausage dishes. This is a very comprehensive, well written book that will make sausage making easy, especially for the novice. 272 pages.

Home Meat Curing Guide
An illustrated 32 page book that explains how to cure meat at home using pickling brines and dry curing methods. Learn how to cure hams and bacon as well as the basics of sausage and jerky making. Easy to follow instructions and recipes included. A MUST for home meat processors.

Sausage Making Cookbook by Jerry Predika
The author talks about different types of casings and what they are used for, types of bacteria to be aware of, smokehouses and how to make one. He then talks about the various types of sausage; fresh, dry and semi-dry, as well as jerky making. There are over 230 recipes of every kind of sausage and jerky you can imagine. 175 pages.

Basic Butchering of Livestock and Game by John Mettler, Jr.
This publication covers the butchering of beef, hogs, veal, lamb, deer, poultry, rabbits and small game. It explains
how to butcher each one and then how to cut into table cuts. In addition, it covers smoking and other means of preserving meat. The book contains over 130 illustrations and clear easy to follow text. Finally there are 30 pages of all kinds of recipes. This book is for anyone who hunts, farms or buys large quantities of meat.

Cold Smoking & Salt Curing Meat, Fish & Game by A. D. Livingston
The author takes a heads on look at old curing and smoking methods as opposed to the modern hype about the ill effects of salt. He talks about cured fish, dry curing all types of meats, building several types of smokehouses for cold smoking fresh fish, meat, wild game and fowl. Most meat smoking today is hot smoking at temperatures over 120°. This book offers a wealth of information as well as delicious recipes about cold smoking and curing. Often times this info is hard to come by. Not any more. This is a great book! 149 pages.

Home Book of Smoke Cooking Meat, Fish & Game by Jack Sleight & Raymond Hull
This publication starts with building a smokehouse from a refrigerator, boxes, a shed, or a barrel. He also covers brining and pumping meats, the various woods to make smoke, smoking hams, bacon and fish. Hot and cold smoking as well as dry curing, temperatures, and sausage recipes are also included. This is an excellent choice for someone learning the art of smoking.

The Smoked Foods Cookbook by Lue & Ed Park
This book holds a wealth of information on smoking. How to prepare your meat to be smoked by brining, cures, marinades and injecting. It gives you brine recipes, brining times, smoking time tables and many recipes for sauces, game, fish, cheese and sausages, and how to smoke them all. The authors talk about equipment and various bacteria you should be aware of and how to deal with them. You can’t go wrong with this publication. 202 pages.

Sausage by A. D. Livingston
In this publication the author covers sausage making from the beginning to the finished product. Selecting cuts of meat, preparing them, seasoning and grinding, stuffing meat into casings and finally cooking the finished product. Over 100 sausage recipes for venison, other wild game, fowl and fish. Contains some recipes you won’t find in similar books. An excellent choice for novice sausage makers. 191 pages.