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"hahabogus" > wrote in message
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> "Michael \"Dog3\"" > wrote in
> 6.121:
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>> dropped this news:73008ba1-d695-456e-9f48-
>> : in rec.food.cooking
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>>> Unlike the posters searching for ideas of how to use a hambone, I have
>>> plenty of ideas, but not very many hambones, like maybe one a year.
>>> Does anybody have a suggestion of how to lay hands on the occasional
>>> hambone without having first to eat the ham? There are only two of
>>> us, and a ham big enough to have a bone lasts a long time.
>>>
>>> I suspect that there may be no solution here. Nobody sells hambones
>>> on ebay.
>>
>> Your local butcher can hook you up, maybe even your local supermarket
>> butcher dept. can help you out.
>>
>> You might be able to find some decent shanks at the supermarket and if
>> all else fails you can use hocks although they are different than what
>> you are talking about.
>>
>> What are you going to make with the ham bones?
>>
>> Michael
>>
>>
>>
>
> Perhaps entertaining more often would provide you with more ham bones. I
> buy about 3 to 4 hams a year. For a variety of reasons...family feasts,
> celibatory dinners, dinner parties that sort of thing. I also put my
> freezer to good use and thatway aren't stuck with a great deal of
> leftovers ham that needs to be eaten soon.
>
> --
>
> The house of the burning beet-Alan
>
> It'll be a sunny day in August, when the Moon will shine that night-
> Elbonian Folklore
>

This is exactly what I do Alan. I have hambones from the hams that I serve
year-round. I have two in my freezer that I bought at Publix the other day.
When they hit $.99/# I buy them.

I also have a local butcher that sells bones and ham trim. I'm lucky!

helen