# Preserved Meat

Traditional meat preservation in the Chinese countryside, using salt, spices, and smoking techniques.

- Category: Appetizer
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- edible salt
- licorice
- bay leaf
- cypress
- grapefruit peel

## Instructions

1. Lay the pork cuts on the table.
2. Pour edible salt in a pot.
3. Add licorice, bay leaf and spices into the salt.
4. Mix all ingredients together.
5. Cook and heat the salt.
6. Pour the cooked salt over the pork cuts to pickle them.
7. Slice the pork into smaller pieces with the knife.
8. Place the pieces on a wooden tray.
9. Cover the pork cuts with the salt and spices.
10. Place the salted meat into big pots.
11. Cover the pots and marinate for ten days.
12. Tie up the pieces with some string.
13. Hang to dry.
14. Put some firewood in the fire pit.
15. Add cypresses and grapefruit peels.
16. Smoke for one month.
17. Wash the smoked meat.
18. Slice the smoked meat.
19. Cook the slices.

## Equipment

- table
- wooden trays
- knife
- stove
- pot
- bowl
- wooden sticks
- fire pit

## Source

- Original video: https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSkSaypLa/
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/f7c00577-6ebc-4a80-862e-0c1c0f8523e2
- Extracted: 2025-06-07

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