Buy Some Great New Hampshire Bacon & Other Meat Products

By Jim on December 25th, 2008

I was down at Market Basket the other day looking for some bacon and found a brand I’d never seen before. It’s made by a company right here in New Hampshire: North Country SmokeHouse. Here’s a description from the company’s site:

The exhilarating air and colors of autumn were setting in as I drove along the country roads in our neighborhood the other day. I found myself envisioning how the landscape may have looked a hundred years ago, and I thought back to the time when nearly every farm had its own smokehouse.

I’m Mike Satzow, owner of North Country Smokehouse. My family has been in the meat business for over seventy-five years. Three generations ago, my immigrant grandfather founded a small but thriving business providing fine custom-smoked meats to local customers in the Claremont, New Hampshire area.

Today, our butchers still cure our products meticulously by hand, using maple sugar and traditional spices first brought back in the eighteenth century from the West Indies by Portsmouth sea captains. We smoke our foods slowly over carefully controlled cool burning fires of maple wood and corn cobs. This is the authentic New England farm smokehouse method perfected by colonists before the American Revolution. We think this method produces far superior flavor to hickory smoking—and our customers agree. All of our foods bring you the magnificent flavor and the goodness of New England farmhouse foods “from a simpler time, for a better time… for over 75 years.”

I bought the Fruitwood Smoked Uncured Bacon. It’s a thick cut of bacon and it was VERY good. I fried it yesterday with two fresh eggs and it made an absolutely delicious breakfast.

Here are some details about that bacon from the company’s site:

“This farmhouse style all natural bacon is marinated in real maple syrup and smoked for hours over applewood and cherry fires to create an old time flavor. This product does not contain nitrites, nitrates, or phosphates. Certified Humane Raised and Handled.”

If you’re in the market for some really good bacon and you want to support a New Hampshire company then check out what the North Country Smokehouse has to offer. I will definitely be buying more of their bacon and probably some other meat products as well.