SLOW COOKED PICNIC HAM OR BRISKET
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BBR
Recipe Introduction
Posted by: M_Wolverine
List of Ingredients
This fills the house with heavenly smells and is great to come in to from a brisk Fall day. Make sure to have plenty of mome made bread or rolls to saok all the delicious juice.
The dish I'm talking about is like a New England Boiled Dinner but with Ham instead of corned beef. It's not a country ham, which would be way too salty for this. It's a smoked picnic ham with the bone still in.
That is simmered all day with about three inches of water in the pan and two-three onions. When the ham pulls away from the bone, remove it from the kettle and keep just the meat, discarding the bone and all the fat.
You'll probably want to skim the fat from the broth or make this a day ahead and store the broth in the fridge overnight so you can scoop the cangealed fat off the top.
Next heat the broth with the meat back in it and put quartered potatoes, chunks of carrot, a couple more whole onions and serving sized cabbage wedges on top. Add enough water to just about cover the cabbage. Sprinkle it generously with fresh ground black pepper and simmer it covered until all the veggies are fork tender.
This is also good with turnips, rutabagas and kohlrabi in it, but my Mom never put them in.
Recipe
My Mom simmered this on the stove all day long. She used to mash the potatoes up with my carrots and put lots of butter and broth over them to get me to eat the carrots.
You should try it with kohlrabi and rutabaga in it too sometime, it's delicious.
Something else that I do that my Mom didn't is when I put the ham on to cook at the beginning, I shred or grate 1 each of every kind of veggie that I'm going to put in at the end to make a richer broth. 1 carrot, 1 potato, 1 onion, 1 cabbage wedge, etc. After simmering all day you don't even know that they're in the broth other than the really rich flavor that they give it.
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