The invention discloses a method for making Tujia scented bacon and belongs to the technical field of meat
product processing. The method includes thirteen steps of hair burning, cooling,
raw meat cutting, hole drilling, ingredient mixing, preserving in salt, fat removing,
drying in the air, baking, smoking, color rendering, denitrating, color and taste preserving. The method for making Tujia scented bacon has the advantages that ingredients for preserving in salt include various natural quality-guaranteed spices characterized in Tujia favor, baking to dewater and smoking for flavoring the bacon are operated separably, so that bacon taste can be controlled;
meat flavor can spread remotely by smoking with fresh pine and
cypress branches and green pole wood,
smoke can uniformly spread by means of a porous iron plate, and harmful components in the
smoke can be filtered by original peels; and
nitrite contained in the bacon can be removed by baking through
tea tree branches. Thus, the bacon is dry and yellowish in luster, bright in appearance, identical in taste in reality as in appearance, endless in
aftertaste, pervasive in scent, and fatty without greasy. After test many times, finished bacon is free of or low in content of
nitrite, and quality of the bacon is greatly improved.