"Edwin Pawlowski" > wrote in message
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> Contact Joe Ames at He will shop via mail
> but I have no idea how cost effective it is given the weight of the
> product. You may do better by mixing your own instead of paying shipping
> cost on salt and sugar. Buy the cure and make your own. It is a
> combination of Prague power #1 and #2, salt, sugar.
I'll try this contact. The Mortons cures seemed the easiest way to get my
feet wet in this new hobby, but the Prague powder may be may be the most
cost effective way to go. I've read about Prague powder and it seems that
it's probably easier to customise recipes with it.
One of the references I'm using is a old mimeograph copy of a hand written
collection of recipes from just before the turn of the last century. Many
of the recipes use saltpeter as their cure. Would the amounts for saltpeter
be the same as Prague powder?
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