> Homemade jerky sounds a great idea. Can it be done without
all the sweet
> molasses, honey and sugar that seems to be used in
commercial jerky.....?.
>

Please  read American History.

If you keep at it you may find the article of the "Indian
Girl"  Who  escaped her captors with her baby and her horse.

She killed the horse,  dried the meat into jerky and used
that jerky to keep her going for hundreds of miles as she
walked to find and join her original family.

Jerky is simply dried meat,  or ?

Regards,  Lorenzo