Need help from our English friends. I have been watching a TV show called "Come Dine with Me"
Quite funny really.Well I am confused about something one contestant cooked. It was Ham cooked in Coke Cola. No big mystery there have heard of Rabbits cooked this way.
Anyway to get to the point of my question. Do you call uncooked Pork ham?
Here Ham is a cured meat usually smoked and ready to eat. What was cooked on the show looked like raw Pork.
Would appreciate any clues.
Thanks Barbara in Australia
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Definition: Ham is pork that has been preserved through salting, smoking, or wet curing. It was traditionally made only from the hind leg of swine, and referred to that specific cut of pork.
The sugars in the cola will caramelize to form a glaze as the liquids cook off.
P.S. I have NEVER heard of bacon, tenderloin, shoulder, or other uncooked pork products referred to as "ham" nor all soft drinks called "Coke" in my part of America. Soda or pop is the generic name used here for soft drinks.
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by babash
27 Feb 2016
Thank you. I was thinking it might be salted Pork as it is cooked on the top of the stove for a few hours.
A bit like Corned Beef.
7208Fresh ham is the uncured hind leg of the hog. It was my Mom's holiday roast. Jo in New Jersey
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32948I don't know Barbara down here we use it to take the tarnish off coins or to clean the oil spill on the driveway or as a way to get Diabetes, not sure I want my food cooked in it.lol maybe the English can keep this one. Marian/Sydney
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by babash
27 Feb 2016
I don't drink soft drink but was thinking the sugar gets thrown out when meat is cooked.
45918Ham is a smoked pork product...what you describe sounds like a raw pork butt..(actually the shoulder)...it is slow cooked in Cola for several hours until it is fall apart done...then shredded for pulled pork sandwiches for example.
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by spendlove
27 Feb 2016
In England where the TV programme was made, ham is not smoked. Unless it is smoked ham, which is much less common.
318484It's another Americanism.....we need to do better. We tend to call all pork ham the same as we call most soda's coke. So to answer your question, yes, we call uncooked pork ham.
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by bevintex
26 Feb 2016
Not everyone does, I see it as 2 different things. As for soda being called coke some refer to it as pop. I think the region you come from has a lot to do with what things are called.
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