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    5 year old dry cured ham

    Ya got me there. Probably tomorrow afternoon.
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    5 year old dry cured ham

    Patience grasshopper
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    5 year old dry cured ham

    Yes, this is a 10 year update. If my butcher friend can't cut into it, I'll take it out to the Woodshop and attack it with my bandsaw. Today or tomorrow I will post pictures and a taste report.
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    5 year old dry cured ham

    Well, the han is bow 10 years old this month. I'm going to see if a butcher friend of mine will slice it for me. If he will, I'll post pictures.
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    Green chili sausage

    Thank you
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    Green chili sausage

    Does anyone have a proven recipe for roasted chili sausage? I've seen Len Poli's recipe for jalapeno sausage but I want to use the roasted hatch chili I have in the freezer. Any issue with simply substituteing green chili for the jalapeno and using that?
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    5 year old dry cured ham

    Correct, no injections. Salt, brown sugar, black pepper, wrapped in brown paper, refrigerated 40 days, cold smoked 48+ hours, socked, hung and sadly forgotten until now. I followed the university of Kentucky agriculture video on YouTube.
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    5 year old dry cured ham

    I've read about Italian hams kept for decades. Mine certainly wouldn't qualify for that kind of quality, but I'm going to crack it open and try it. I'll report when I do it.
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    5 year old dry cured ham

    I'm familiar with that place although it's been years since I've been there.
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    5 year old dry cured ham

    Such a generous offer, but I think I'll hold on to it, find a friendly butcher with a Binford 5000 meat slicer. However, I will post photos of the results.
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    5 year old dry cured ham

    I'm in Washington state. Relative high humidity, warm summers, cool winters. No mold on the stocking, which I attribute to the long dry cure under refrigeration, and good amount of smoke. Actually, the 'ante' room is a small cubby where I kept bages of pellets for smoking. It hung in a corner...
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    5 year old dry cured ham

    November 2015 I dry cured a number of hams. Over the next year, my family enjoyed what I thought was all of them. We recently moved to a new home and bam! I found one that I had hung in the corner of my smoke house ante room I had missed. It's still in the sock, nice and brown from the smoke...
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    Is my country ham spoiled????

    Two years hanging in the smokehouse, I pulled a ham for new years this year stripped off the fat (OK, first big mistake, but that's smoke up the chimney) but due to a family emergency, I had to wrap it in aluminum foil and put it on our back porch which is unheated. I figured to pull it out in...
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    Apple Sausage recipe...dried or fresh apples?

    Thank you for your input.
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    Apple Sausage recipe...dried or fresh apples?

    I've seen Len Poli's recipes for apple sausages, and one uses dried apples and one fresh. Has anyone got an opinion....better yet, a great apple sausage recipe that gives me the skinny on which way to go? I'm planning on adding high temp cheddar cheese to which ever way I go.
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