Alaska Smoked Salmon

Title:
Alaska Smoked Salmon

Yield:
24 Servings

Categories:
Seafood




Ingredients:





     4    -(up to)


     5    Salmon; fresh


     5 lb Rock salt


   2/3 pk (2-pound) light brown sugar


     2 pk (5-pound) hickory chips;


          -fine






  Cut strips of salmon lengthwise, two-inches wide.  Score thickest parts.


 Keep belly parts for last 20 minutes of marinating (belly section is


 thinner, requiring less soaking).


 


  Add rock salt and brown sugar in plastic bucket, filled 2/3 with water.


 Stir to dissolve.


 


  Soak all salmon pieces, except belly, in brine for one hour.  Stir


 occasionally.  Add belly strips during last 20 minutes.


 


  Remove fish strips and smoke with hickory chips for eight hours, being


 sure salmon strips are placed in highest position in smoker.


 


 From a book of my mother's (Judy Hosey) titled ,
mostly Japanese and Hawaiian.  Downloaded from Glen's MM


 Recipe Archive, http://www.erols.com/hosey.