Home-cured meats – off-the-scale delicious

Making your own bacon and salt beef gives you the chance to avoid the nitrates and nitrites of the industrially processed product – but can you keep it pink?I discovered domestic curing in an absolutely stunning book, Salt, Sugar, Smoke by Diana Henry, where there’s a recipe for salt beef without which my adult life would have been immeasurably poorer. The beauty of home-curing is twofold. For some reason, it is off-the-scale delicious. Better still, you end up with tons of meat, mor