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How to Salt Pig Tails

Pig tails contain tender and fatty meat. When properly cured, or salted, the pig tails make delightful additions to a variety of recipes from soups and casseroles to sandwiches and hors d'oeuvres. Salting your own pig tails at home proves to be a simple process that even the novice cook can complete, making your comfort food recipes even more home-cooked.

Things You'll Need

  • Pig tails (1 lb)
  • Table salt (1 lb)
  • Water
  • Jar with lid
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Instructions

    • 1

      Fill a one gallon jar with water.

    • 2

      Add about a pound of table salt to the jar. Stir it with a long spoon to disperse the salt throughout the water to create a brine solution.

    • 3

      Add a pound of fresh pig tails to the jar containing the brine solution.

    • 4

      Cap the jar and put it in your refrigerator.

    • 5

      Allow the jar containing the pig tails and brine solution approximately 48 hours to sit in the fridge.


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