Italian equivalent of a joint of gammon?
Replies: 26 - Last Post: Dec 11, 2012 2:24 PM Last Post By: VinnyD
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Its like 'Minced Meat' over here called Hamburg or hamburger in some areas e.g. new England.20
Nutrax,I don't know that City Ham is a commonly used term anywhere. There is a smokehouse in my mother's home town, a small farming town in Missouri, that has a pretty long history of making country hams and when they introduced a moist (I think brine cured ham) that called it a city ham. The do mail order country hams. If you want information on it just pm me. They are not cheap but they are good.
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I dont know Vinny maybe the same place a leg of pork is called a ham. The US has some very weird and wonderful local names for a lot of cuts of meat and food in general. I've never heard a (fresh)leg of Pork called a ham unless its been made into ham. My idea of ham is a couple thin slices on fresh bread with mustard. All those big old slabs of ham that people eat..hmmm...gotta be loaded with salt and not that good for you.25
country ham, I.e. the ham that most people think of as ham.
Since country ham is rare around here, a brine-cured ham is what most people think of as "ham."I mentioned picnic ham in #9. Before posting I tried ot figure out where the name came from. No luck, other than speculation about it being a cheaper cut of meat for feeding a crowd at a picnic. I found "picnic ham" being used as far back as 1890.
Picnic hams were also called California hams (shortened to Calas) at one time, although there is some evidence that a California ham may have been different. From an 1887 California newspaper "Why it is called California ham is a mystery, unless the inventor, eager to cover up the deception, sought for and found a far-fetched title for his invention." The "deception" was that a cheap shoulder cut was being passed off as a real ham.
Google, blast its algorithms, keeps finding the Pickwick Papers, even when my search term is "picnic ham" in double quotes.
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