The best meals are the ones you make yourself! For anyone interested in learning more about where our meat comes from, or how to be more self-sufficient by processing your own meat, this is a fabulous gift.

Description

• Author: Philip Hasheider
• Publisher: Quarto US
• Publication Date: November 2019
• Format: Hardcover
• 224 pages
• Dimensions: 22.9 x 17.8cm

Your self-sufficient farmer will learn absolutely everything they need to know about how to dress and preserve meat. From slaughtering, to processing, to preserving beef, pork, venison, lamb, poultry, and goat, in ways like smoking, salting, and making jerky. Farmer and writer, Philip Hasheider, shares his knowledge in step-by-step instructions and illustrations that will guide beginners through the entire process.

This detailed book covers everything! The Ultimate Guide to Butchering, Smoking, Curing, Sausage, and Jerky Making steps you through how to safely handle live animals, how to humanely transform the meat into future meals for your family, the different cuts of meat and how to process them into different products, as well as the changes meat goes through during processing.