first try making ham

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Angryman65
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first try making ham

Post by Angryman65 »

Had a go at making a ham from a small 750g netted shoulder that was in the fridge and going to go past it's use by before we could cook it.

Made a brine using 2 litres of water, 2 desert spoons of honey, 2 teaspoons of pickling spice and the salt, sugar and #1 cure quantities on the internet calculator (thanks Hoddo).

No photos of it being prepared but it looked like a chunk of pork in a bath of brine.

Into the brine on Sunday at lunchtime and out on Friday night, soaked for a 1/2 hour then refreshed the water and gave it another 1/2 hour. patted dry and into the beer firdge to form a pellicle.

Cold smoked Saturday arvo for 8 hours using apple dust then hot smoked on Sunday till 165f (3 hours) using banksia.

Came out looking good.

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let it cool and sliced it hoping that the cure had gone all the way through because I didn't inject it figuring it was small enough to penetrate.

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pretty happy with how it turned out.

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on sandwiches for lunch today.
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urbangriller
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Re: first try making ham

Post by urbangriller »

Yep.....it's as simple as that!


You'll be doing that again fo sure!

Chris
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