Storing Ham
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Following is a link you might enjoy:
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=great+sausage+recipes&ei=UTF-8&fr=sfp&n=20&fl=0&x=wrt
I have never heard that procuitti are aged underground! The food network's Mario Batalli visited an Italian procuitti "factory" and there were literally 1000's of hams being air dried after curing (and/ or smoking..I don't remember!)
The book: "Great Sausage Recipes and Meat Curing" by Rytek Kutas has a recipe for making your own prociutti. I have tried it, but our climate is not condusive.....(we're in the hot and humid Gulf Coast area.....
It is both salted (cured) and then smoked according to that recipe.
My result was edible, kinda, sorta reminiscent of prociutti, (hahaha)but much too dry......I may try again once we get some cooler weather, as in November/December perhaps....
Good luck and let us know if you try it.....What climate are you in?
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=great+sausage+recipes&ei=UTF-8&fr=sfp&n=20&fl=0&x=wrt
I have never heard that procuitti are aged underground! The food network's Mario Batalli visited an Italian procuitti "factory" and there were literally 1000's of hams being air dried after curing (and/ or smoking..I don't remember!)
The book: "Great Sausage Recipes and Meat Curing" by Rytek Kutas has a recipe for making your own prociutti. I have tried it, but our climate is not condusive.....(we're in the hot and humid Gulf Coast area.....
It is both salted (cured) and then smoked according to that recipe.My result was edible, kinda, sorta reminiscent of prociutti, (hahaha)but much too dry......I may try again once we get some cooler weather, as in November/December perhaps....
Good luck and let us know if you try it.....What climate are you in?
Thanks Birdlady, a great site to actually get the recipes. My Mom used to make sausages and other pork goodies, but she always measured everything by hand or by eyeing it. I guess a couple of times I tried to write down the recipe, but it just didn't work out. She could never make it on a cooking show like on TV.......
We are up here in the cold climate of Southern Ontario, and our winters are really not that bad.
Lately though it seems like we nothingn but rain!
We are up here in the cold climate of Southern Ontario, and our winters are really not that bad.
Lately though it seems like we nothingn but rain!
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Also look into "country ham"...my father-in-law used to cure several (many) each year.
I don't know the details but do know that they salted the ham and hung it up in the basement (you have to hang them to keep the mice from getting to them.) There's more to it than that, I'm sure.
Seems like they'd last a very long time like that (but not sure how long that really is.)
warren.
I don't know the details but do know that they salted the ham and hung it up in the basement (you have to hang them to keep the mice from getting to them.) There's more to it than that, I'm sure.
Seems like they'd last a very long time like that (but not sure how long that really is.)
warren.