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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.
   
  

Enjoy!

Jamie Samford
Corporate Chef
Winn Meat Company