"Nancy Young" > wrote in message
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> I didn't write this letter to Cook's Country:
>
> Many years ago, when I was throwing my first dinner party,
> I wanted to serve ham. I had forgotten the brand of ham
> my mother usually bought, and I didn't really have a clue
> how to make her candied ham, but I decided to improvise.
> I took the large ham out of the can, scraped off the jelly,
> spread mustard and brown sugar on the top, and then
> covered the top with pineapple rings. After baking it for a
> few hours, I took the ham out to serve to my hungry guests.
> It looked a little strange because all the toppings had fallen
> off the ham and into the pan. My husband soon found out why when he went
> to carve the ham. The ham was still
> encased in plastic!
> Ahem.


Barbecue guru that I may be, ahem, some dozen years or so ago I bought a
small ham and decided to smoke it.

I removed the plastic and placed it on the smoker.

Imagine my surprise to discover it had been cooking in a second layer of
plastic for 4 hours.

I didn't get much smoke ring.

Tomorrow I'll tell the chorizo story...


TFM®