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In article >,
onono (Nancree) wrote:
> Since ham is smoked, cooked pork (upper) leg, what is "fresh ham". It sounds
> like it is just plain pork leg. I have always wondered about this.
You got the definition of fresh ham correct, but not plain "ham". Ham is
only cooked if it is marked as fully cooked. Otherwise it needs to be
cooked.
I went to a wedding a few weeks back, and the dinner after the wedding
featured fresh ham. I was talking to the cook the night before, when they
were carving them (two whole fresh hams, roasted in the oven). She said
that the pig came from the farm in back of where the wedding was held, and
that she had met the pig before it was slaughtered.
At home we normally buy an uncooked cured ham, and bake it. It is much
better than the fully cooked hams you buy, which in turn are better than
most canned hams. Our local supermarket is offering cured uncooked half
hams for US$1.29 a pound. You can't go wrong at that price, although we
prefer the butt half (at US$1.49 a pound) rather than the shank half at
the cheaper price.
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Dan Abel
Sonoma State University
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