Name: How English Black Ham Is Made Using A 200-Year-Old Recipe | Regional Eats
Uploaded: 2022-06-26T16:50:05.000Z
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Claudia: Suffolk black ham gets this black crust

it helps balance the flavor and break away

is where this has been happening for over 200 years.

Mark: This is 39.5 liters of black porter beer.

Mark: It's like a stout, it's like a Guinness,

and this is the basis for our black hams.

Claudia: All right, and is this a local beer, right?

Mark: This is a local beer from Nethergate Brewery

in Clare, which is an hour and 20 minutes from here.

Claudia: As Mark releases the pressure in the barrel,

Here is where we will make enough marinade

is that the marinade gets into the gammon.

So if you sit in the bath for half an hour

Then Mark adds sugar and molasses to the marinade.

I think it's all part of adding flavor to meat

Because when you think about it, there was no

refrigeration back in the 1800s, 1900s, or very little,

it's not particularly pleasant to eat a lot of salt.

So this was a way of dispersing the salt.

Mark: As you can see, this is part of the

Claudia: It's giving me some Christmas vibes,

almost 40 kilos of brown sugar and molasses.

In the meantime, Mark strings the gammons,

which have already been cured with natural salt,

Mark: This is the leg of a free-range pig.

So this is just the rear leg of the pig, nothing else.

Claudia: 11 kilos. OK, that's like a kettlebell.

Claudia: It has lost a little bit in terms of size.

Mark: As you can see, it is gaining color,

I don't go to the gym. I lift ham and bacon.

But by turning them, you get rid of the white patches

and you get an even distribution of flavor

throughout the ham. Because as you can see,

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How English Black Ham Is Made Using A 200-Year-Old Recipe | Regional Eats

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