Apple Wine Jerky

- Ingredients -

• 2 kgs lean meat, sliced into 6mm thick strips
• 2 cups soy sauce
• 1 cup water
• 1 cup apple wine
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 2 tbsp. pickling salt
• ½ tsp. onion powder
• ½ tsp. garlic powder
• ½ tsp. black pepper
• ½ tsp. Tabasco sauce

Combine all brine ingredients into a nonmetal container, stir well and ad meat strips. Cover and refrigerate overnight. Remove the meat strips and blot with paper towels and place on oiled smoker racks to air-dry until they acquire a glaze. (This may take a few hours.) Place the racks of meat into the smoker oven. Smoke with apple wood until the meat is dry.