I came across an old recipe of mine for Slim Jim's that has to be from the 80's... it's probably from Rytec Kutas's book, I haven't looked it up yet but that's all I had to work with back then.
This is a real basic recipe and not to bad. It's a lot like a Slim Jim but with out as much grease.
here's the recipe for one pound the way I did it:
next time I'll cut back on the encapsulated citric acid, it was a touch to much and maybe bump the mace and black pepper up a notch.
A couple pic's for ya;
5 pounds , or 40 feet of skinny Jimmy's stuffed and ready for a night in the frig.
and one after smoked with hickory for 4 hours and brought up to 154° internal. total smoke time 5.5 hours
This is a real basic recipe and not to bad. It's a lot like a Slim Jim but with out as much grease.
here's the recipe for one pound the way I did it:
| US Measure | ingredient | grams |
| 5 lb | Beef 80/20 | 2270 |
| 1 ¾ oz | salt | 50 |
| ¾ oz | powder dextrose | 21 |
| 3 TB | ground mustard | 13.8 |
| 2 TB | hot paprika | 12.5 |
| .3 oz | citric acid | 8.5 |
| 1 tsp | Cure #1 | 5.5 |
| ½ tsp | garlic | 1.4 |
| ½ tsp | white pepper | 1.2 |
| ½ tsp | black pepper | 1.1 |
| ½ TB | mace | 0.9 |
A couple pic's for ya;
5 pounds , or 40 feet of skinny Jimmy's stuffed and ready for a night in the frig.
and one after smoked with hickory for 4 hours and brought up to 154° internal. total smoke time 5.5 hours
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