AlleyGator wrote:
> Daniel > wrote:
>
>
>>I want to make some homemade Pastrami/Smoked Meat and need some Sodium
>>Nitrate to add to my cure.
>>
>>Does anyone know where in Canada (or better yet Toronto) where I might
>>be able to buy this ingredient.
>
> I have some "prague powder number ???" can't remember the number, but
> it's the one for smoked/dried meat (jerkey, etc). IIRC, the Morton is
> just that plus sugar. I ordered it online, I can look around for the
> site if you want me to. It was pretty cheap. It's pink though, which
> is a little weird.


You probably have the #2. Morton Tenderquick is about the same thing as
#2 cure diluted with salt. You use Tenderquick measure-for-measure like
salt in the recipe and it takes care of the nitrite and nitrate.

Bob