The curing mixture is made from the curing salt and all the spices by placing everything in a bowl and stirring. This rubs the neck well and distributes the rest evenly over it.
Now you put the pepper comb in a vacuum bag that you press to make it pretty air-free (no vacuum) and weld it. In the refrigerator, curing will soon appear, which is why the bag should be turned every other day, curing is carried out for 3 weeks.
After this time, the comb is washed off well and sprayed with a brine made of water, salt and sorbic acid (must be boiled). This is how you let the comb dry off for a week.
Then the comb is sprayed again with the brine, brushed with liquid honey (warm it up) and rolled in broken black pepper. After about 4 weeks dry at about 15 - 18 ° C and a humidity of about 65 - 70% you can then cut.