Apple Brine for Game

Ingredients

1 ½ Gallons Water
½ Gallon Apple juice, fresh
1 Cup Kosher salt
1 Cup Brown sugar
4 Apple Sliced thin, discard core
2 Each Garlic heads, cut in 1/2
2 Each Yellow onions, julienne
4 Each Cinnamon sticks
4 Each Whole cloves
20 Each Black peppercorns
4 Each Bay leaf
6 Each Juniper berries, lightly mashed
2 Limes, Cut in ½, juiced into water, then added to water
1 Bunch Fresh parsley, bruised and torn

Method

• Put water in a 5 gallon bucket. Dissolve salt and sugar in the water.
  • Add the remaining ingredients to the water.
  • Place meat in the water so that it is totally submerged. Add more water if necessary.
  • Place bucket in a cooler.
  • Leave the meat in the brine for at least 6 and up to 12 hours.
  • Remove meat from the brine. Rinse off all the brine. Pat dry with paper towels.
  • Cook and enjoy!

   

  From the kitchen of Jamie Samford
  Corporate Chef of Winn Meat Company