How to Cut and Cure Pork

By The Mother Earth News Editors
Published on November 1, 1972
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It pays to do a neat job of butchering and trimming.
It pays to do a neat job of butchering and trimming.
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It pays to do a neat job of butchering and trimming
It pays to do a neat job of butchering and trimming

Click on the Image Gallery for the referenced step-by-step photos.

OK, homesteaders . . . here’s another installment of
Morton Salt’s superior booklet, A COMPLETE GUIDE TO HOME
MEAT CURING.  How to Butcher a Pig told you how to butcher, halve
and chill a hog. This section takes you most of the way
through curing the pork that results. 

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