Next up in Craig Brooks’ Eat Like a Viking! Recipe book: Beef Jerky. A traditionally Peruvian recipe, jerky comes from the Quechua word ch’arki meaning ‘dried salted meat.’
I prepared all this on a Sunday, 20th July, where there was plenty of time to prep the meat: freezing it to an extent that it’s easier to cut into strips, then allowing it to settle in the marinade for 3 hours. It then needed another 2 hours in the oven to dry it out. It wasn’t a particularly complicated recipe, just very time consuming. I expect this was a method of preserving meat that was used by Vikings, although there was no way they visited Peru or knew about jerky.
In the end, it tasted… okay. A bit weird. Not a favourite from the book.
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