Ground Beef Jerky

Yield: 12 pieces. Mix ground beef with all other ingredients, stir until mixed. Put into a food processor with chopping knife and chop for a good minute, until well-mixed together and consistency of putty. On a floured cutting board, take ball of meat mixture and coat both sides lightly with flour so it won't stick and roll out with floured rolling pin, fold and roll until roughly 8" by 12" rectangle 1/8" or less thick. Using a pizza cutter, cut into 1" wide strips 8" long and carefully transfer to a wire rack. Heat oven to 300, place wire rack with meat in oven on oven rack in center of oven, with second oven rack one notch below. On lower rack, place cookie sheet under meat to act as a drip pan. Bake for 1 hour at 300. Mix together sauce ingredients in shallow dish. Remove rack of meat, roll each strip into sauce mix and return to rack. When all coated, return to oven and increase temperature to 450. Bake for 15 min. Remove rack again and recoat strips and return to oven for another 15 min. or until strips become almost burnt around edges. Remove from oven and coat one last time, then let sit and cool to room temp.