JERKY DAZE: Wild game jerky - easy to make and great to 
bring on your next picnic...ahead on Passport to Texas.

This is Passport to Texas

May is when Parks and Wildlife celebrates al fresco 
feasting; also known as picnicking. And, if you're Larry 
Burrier, you always pack along some homemade wild 
game jerky.

08 -- First off, it's more nutritional and better for you than 
everyday snacks. Plus - the most important thing -- you know 
what's in it.

People who say they don't like jerky because it's like 
trying to eat a leather belt, haven't had good jerky says 
Burrier.

08 -- It's supposed to be pliable. If you can take a piece of that 
meat and bend it without it cracking or breaking, that's when it's 
jerky. You don't want it hard.

From-time-to-time Burrier teaches traditional jerky-
making classes at Lockhart State Park. He says making 
this treat from wild game you've harvested brings your 
food full circle when you eat it outdoors - where it 
originated.

08 -- It's self-sustaining. It teaches them how to live off the land. 
What to do with the meat after you harvest it. Of course, this state 
has so much game in it, it's ridiculous.

Ridiculously delicious, that is. Find a jerky recipe to use 
with any animal protein, and that requires no special 
equipment to make, at passporttotexas.org.

We record our series at the Block House. Joel Block 
engineers our program.

For Texas Parks and Wildlife, I'm Cecilia Nasti.





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