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From: thomas@utah-gr.UUCP (Spencer W. Thomas)
Newsgroups: net.cooks
Subject: Re: Beef jerky
Message-ID: <1450@utah-gr.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 15-May-85 18:44:54 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 15 18:44:54 1985
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Reply-To: thomas@utah-gr.UUCP (Spencer W. Thomas)
Organization: Univ of Utah CS Dept
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In article <605@tpvax.fluke.UUCP> inc@fluke.UUCP (Gary Benson) writes:
>DON'T use an oven to dry your jerky. Do it as the Indians did, by hanging it
>on little drying racks outside in the sun. When I was doing jerkey, I made a
>little cage with wire screening to keep the flies out, and just let it
>hang outside for a week or so.

It is strongly recommended by "most authorities" that you not sun-dry
anything within about 300 yards of a busy street (I.e., if you don't
live in the country, you lose).  The reason for this is that the food
will pick up lead from exhaust fumes (and you don't want to be eating
lead, do you?)

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=Spencer   ({ihnp4,decvax}!utah-cs!thomas, thomas@utah-cs.ARPA)
	"There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired."
	- F. Scott Fitzgerald