Clean the meat (excess fat, silver skin, and srape any skin down)
Cut in half
Lay skin side down.
Place Bay leaves, juniper berries, garlic on the meat side
Liberally pepper
In a sealable bag, add 1/3 the salt, a piece of the meat, 1/3 the salt, the other piece of meat, 1/3 of the salt).
Seal and refrigerate 7 days.
Remove for fridge, scrape the meat to get off most of the salt/herbs.
Rinse with wine to remove any remaining salt. (any wine will do)
Poke a hole with a knife and attach a string for hanging to each piece.
liberally cover 1 piece of the meat with pepper (pepato) and the other with chilli powder (amatrice)
hang the meat at room temperature (70s) for 2 days.
Weigh the meats and record the weights. Goal of the next step is to reduce the weight by 30%.
Place in the fridge (hang if you can) with a drip bowl beneath and check every 2-4 weeks. When you get to the 30% reduction you are done.
Meat can be sliced and diced and used based on the type
AMATRICE, used for Pasta alla AMATRICIANA, and
PEPATO we will prepare Pasta alla CARBONARA and Pasta alla GRICIA
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