Recipe - Alaska Smoked Salmon

4 (up to)
5 Salmon; fresh
5 pound Rock salt
2/3 pack (2pound) light brown sugar
2 pack (5pound) hickory chips;
fine

Cut strips of salmon lengthwise, twoinches wide. Score thickest parts.
Keep belly parts for last 20 minutes of marinating (belly section is
thinner, requiring less soaking).

Add rock salt and brown sugar in plastic bucket, filled 2/3 with water.
Stir to dissolve.

Soak all salmon pieces, except belly, in brine for one hour. Stir
occasionally. Add belly strips during last 20 minutes.

Remove fish strips and smoke with hickory chips for eight hours, being
sure salmon strips are placed in highest position in smoker.

From a book of my mother's (Judy Hosey) titled Senator Richard Matsuura's
Favorite Recipes, mostly Japanese and Hawaiian. Downloaded from Glen's MM
Recipe Archive, http://www.erols.com/hosey.