Country and city hams: cured, smoked, raw, brined or fresh, get your juices going for some good old American ham. Recipes featured in this episode: Country Ham and City Ham.
Good Eats S4E5P2: Ham I Am
February 9th, 2010 
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Oh, and Save those drippings for gravy! Serve it up with fresh mash &/or homemade biscuits and you’ll have a happy passle of people lolling around in your living room with smiles on their faces for hours
My husband and I have done many hams this way – it is the most amzing tasting ham EVER. Our extended family rants and raves every time we do this for dinners (& we have ham dinners several times a year). Hint : The crust will adhere a bit better if you score the ham rather deeply and make sure ALL the fat is removed – the mustard sticks to the meat much better than to the fat. Once that’s on, the rest holds up pretty well.
i also keep bourbon in a spray bottle, but for different reasons
I’ve also heard you can marinate the ham in ginger ale overnight and it works the same way.
thnk s
That ham looks so good!
“see how loose that bone is?” hahahah ok I am acting like 14
In the 40-50s we cured hams country style from a recipe Dad had handed down by the family. Slaughter time was first deep snow of wntr, cure time 11 mo. Soaking country ham ? NEVER ! Slice per video & into the cast iron frying pan. Cook til the fat is translucent & serve. A cup of hot strong coffee or chicore in the frying pan after frying the ham (deglaze the pan with coffee) yelds delicious RED-EYE gravy, Serve over biscuits or grits. Love country cured hams, its the only real way !
My family did that a couple years ago, at Christmas. Seeing as how my (country) folks worked with a (city) ham, i.e., it wasn’t vertical as Alton had it, but horizontal, there wasn’t exactly the purest application of a recipe. But I can tell you that the crust tends to be a bit loose no matter what you do, and that a lot of goodness will drip into the pan and you want to use that to drag the meat through or drizzle over it. It will make the best city ham you ever tasted.
I’ve done the City Ham before, but the Crust never sticks to it for me.
ill be doing the ginger snap cookie ham on thanksgiving
in my stomach, of course.
in the bourbon holder? xD
who the fuck cares
Yes, but he did mention the Portuguese “prechuto” so he should be trying to talk portuguese
i always keep my bourbon in a hole i dug outside
where do you hold your bourbon?
“Prechuto” or “Prochuto” is the Italian pronunciation.
haha 02:29
It’s funny the way he says “Presunto”. Since I’m Portuguese I notice the difference
He spells the “s” of preSunto like “ch” instead os the correct way, “z”. And he doesn’t use the nose like most english people, so you don’t hear the “n” from presuNto.
He ends up saying “Prechuto”
I love you AB!! He mentioned Portugal twice in the same episode TwT
ha, he keeps bourbon in a spray bottle.
Classic.
Holy shit that looks friggin’ delicious.
MAN, That ham looks AMAZING. Definitely going to try out that city ham recipe.
hmmmmmmm
bourbon
doctor brown, is my ham gonna make it? THE DARN H-BONE!!!
HOLY FUCKIN SHIT.. HAM!
You have some of the best videos. This one is great!!