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What part of the "it fell off the mountain" state do you live in? Well I feel sorry for ya, Memorial HS, NH College, lived in Manchester for 8 years, so here is a Jerky recipe for you:

ED’S BEEF JERKY - ALMOST HEAVEN

This beef jerky can be made hard or soft by varying the smoke time or the thickness of the sliced beef. We use whole eye of round as the meat base, any meat can be used as long as it is a long muscle, cut length ways, with the grain. The initial slabs should be cut 1 inch thick. Then lay the slab flat and cut into ¼ inch thick strips. You should have approximately 5 lbs of strips 1 inch wide by ¼ inch thick.

Marinade:
1/2 Bottle of Moores Marinade
¼ Cup Soy Sauce
1/2 Cup Water
1 Teaspoon Tabasco
1 Tablespoon Maunsel Whites 1812 Wine Sauce
1 Tablespoon of Liquid Smoke

Mix ingredients thoroughly. Pour marinade into large bowl, place meat into marinade for 2 hours at room temperature. Turn meat by mixing with hands every 30 minutes in marinade.

Place meat on racks without touching. Dust meat using Lawry’s season salt with Tabasco (a little in this seasoning goes a long way). Place in smoker for 7 hours at 180 degrees (soft jerky), 8 to 9 hours for drier jerky.

Use a dehydrator as a substitute for a smoker: dry at 140 degrees for 8-10 hours or until dry.

Good luck and good eating,
Ed

PS: Maunsel White's Wine Sauce might be a bit hard to find but it is worth it if you find it. Created just for Andrew Jackson in 1812 in New Orleans, it is a white wine that has been rendered into about a tenth of its volume.