Honey-cured Smoked Salmon

Recipe Description

Purchased from the Bowers Estate in Fort Worth, Texas in 1994. Indicates this was obtained from “Cindy's” First Grade Teacher in 1972.

Ingredients

  • 1-quart water
  • 1/2-cup salt
  • 3/4-cup honey
  • 1/4-cup golden rum
  • 1/4-cup lemon juice
  • 10 cloves
  • 10 allspice Berries
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 1 large fillet of salmon

Directions

  1. Combine all the ingredients besides the salmon to make the brine.
  2. Place the salmon skin side up in a non-reactive dish and cover with brining liquid.
  3. Allow fish to brine for 2 hours.
  4. Rinse the salmon in fresh water and pat dry with paper towels.
  5. Place salmon on a drying rack (or grill rack that you will use to smoke the salmon on) and allow to air dry for about 1 hour.
  6. Smoke salmon skin side down for about 1-1/2 hours, keeping temperature at 160.
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