Choose from original, peri peri or smoked - made without compromise. Love at first bite! Sorry! – absolutely no South African origins here but after tasting biltong during my travels I was hooked and I’ve been making it ever since, in an old bread tin with a forty watt light bulb. Some twenty years later and with specialist equipment imported from South Africa I’m still making it to my original re
cipe, a Namibian recipe, with a few tweaks here and there. The result is a superior hand crafted snack with undertones of every ingredient being slowly released as you munch through a pack or two. So, what is Biltong? – Biltong as it is today evolved from the dried meat carried by wagon-travelling Dutch settlers in South Africa, there were no fridges or freezers back then so the only way to preserve large amounts of meat was to cure it with salt. Other natural preservatives were added such as coriander, pepper and cloves. This not only preserves the meat it adds to the depth of flavours we all enjoy today. The word Biltong derives from the Dutch word of Bil (Buttock) and Tong (strip), could be useful in a pub quiz.
