HOME-CURED BACON. Pink salt, also known as curing salt No. 1, is a nitrate, a combination of sodium chloride — table salt — and nitrite, a preserving agent used to deter the growth of bacteria ...

Consumers may be confused about the difference between oil-cured olives and those that are not oil-cured. Oil-cured olives are raw olives that are rubbed with salt. Over weeks or months, the salt d… ...

Examples of foods preserved with salt or sugar include the aforementioned corned beef as well as bacon, salt pork, sugar-cured ham, fruit preserves, jams and jellies, among others.

(Editor’s Note: Methods for water-cured and dry salt cured olives follows this article.) CHICO — Don Landis is the Johnny Appleseed-type folk hero of home-cured olives in Northern California.