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Gammon in British English is the hind leg of pork after it has been cured by dry-salting or brining, [1] and may or may not be smoked. [2] Strictly speaking, a gammon is the bottom end of a whole side of bacon (which includes the back leg); ham is just the back leg cured on its own. [ 3 ]
Also known as spare rib roast and joint, it is not to be confused with the rack of spare ribs from the front belly. Pork butt , despite its name, is from the upper part of the shoulder. The Boston butt , or Boston-style shoulder cut, comes from this area and may contain the shoulder blade.
And if the cured gammon is cooked as an entire joint, it becomes a ham. Gammon can be cooked in other ways, such as in the form of gammon steaks; these are not referred to as ham. The term "gammon" is derived from the french word jambon, which means ham, and is derived from the french word for leg: jambe. >snip<
A ham hock (or hough) or pork knuckle is the joint between the tibia/fibula and the metatarsals of the foot of a pig, where the foot was attached to the hog's leg. [1] It is the portion of the leg that is neither part of the ham proper nor the ankle or foot ( trotter ), but rather the extreme shank end of the leg bone.
Black Forest ham is a variety of dry-cured, smoked ham produced in the Black Forest region of Germany. [3] [4] Westphalian ham is produced from acorn-fed pigs raised in the forests of Westphalia, Germany, [12] [13] and the resulting meat is dry-cured and then smoked over a mixture of beechwood and juniper branches. [12] [14] [15] [13] [4]
Smoked meat is the result of a method of preparing red meat, white meat, and seafood which originated in the Paleolithic Era. [1] Smoking adds flavor , improves the appearance of meat through the Maillard reaction , and when combined with curing it preserves the meat. [ 2 ]
For instance, in the United States, a "smoked" ham must have been smoked by hanging over burning wood chips in a smokehouse or an atomized spray of liquid smoke such that the product appearance is equivalent; a "hickory-smoked" ham must have been smoked using only hickory. However, injecting "smoke flavor" is not legal grounds for claiming the ...
Mixed grill dishes include: Bulgarian mixed grill (Meshana skara) – typically pork, pork chops, sausages or minced meat made into meatballs or other shapes; Churrasco – typically featuring various cuts of chicken and beef, especially chicken hearts and picanha (rump cover).