Smoked Horseshoe Gammon (2Kg). Enjoy Carving Luxury Slices Of Fresh Cut Gammon At Home 🐷

More Information & why order a Smoked Horseshoe Gammon?

Fresh cut hot slices of Roast Gammon served with Beef, Turkey, Sprouts, Carrots, Honey roasted parsnips & thick gravy is pretty good reason why you should order your Smoked Horseshoe Gammon joint online. This piece of Gammon 2-2.3 Kilos makes 8-12 portions, feeding 8 people. 200-grams per person before cooking.

Smoked Horseshoe Gammons are great for an all year round piece to be enjoyed by all the family, especially as they are great value for money, & the kids love the easy to chew, tender slices. At Christmas time this is very popular & normally ordered online well in advance to ensure that they have one for Christmas Day or Boxing Day. Having Roast Gammon as an extra meat choice is perfect to go with our Turkey Breast, Bacon & Traditional Sausage Meat

How to cook a Smoked Horseshoe Gammon at home.

• Baked Ham with Brown Sugar & Mustard Glaze
• Christmas Smoked Gammon Joint (Caribbean Style)

The natural vitamins, minerals & protein found in good quality pork is essential towards a balanced diet, & helps with energy levels, digestion, & general fitness. The Smoked Horseshoe Gammon is lean cut that has only a little fat on the outside with the skin, & is not a bad piece to eat. Please note that before cooking all gammons you need to soak in fresh water that is changed every 10 hours 3 times to release some of the salt used for curing, this improves the taste & releases some of the salt.

How do you butcher a Horseshoe Gammon?

This delicious Smoked Horseshoe Gammon are cut from the best fillet end of the leg of pork & weigh approximately 4-6 Kilos. These are completely boneless & are “Tunnel Boned” by our expert butchers, this means the Horseshoe Gammon remains as a single piece. The reason they are removed this way is because keeping the meat whole stops any excess loss of moisture, & gives you complete slices when carving at home. The whole Horseshoe gammon is then cut in half to make the best size for home cooking.

The leg has a great consistent texture throughout & the meat is fairly fibrous, meaning it will have better flavour & become more tender when cooked slowly. The leg muscles are quite fibrous as these are a heavily worked muscle, the best cuts for roasting are from the leg. If you were to compare this to beef, you would get Topside, Silverside & Top Rump or Thick from this, & these are all familiar Beef roasting joints.

This is why the leg of pork makes the best choice as a roasting joint because the meat is very tender when oven roasted or placed in a slow cooker. There is no gristle or cartilage in the roasting piece, as these have been removed & the portions of sliced Horseshoe Gammon are all meat.

How do you process a Smoked Horseshoe Gammon?

The process from turning a boneless leg of Pork into a Smoked Horseshoe Gammon is started by curing them in salt or brining. Once the legs are brined, they are then “Smoked “for a few hours to let the aromas from the burning woodchips like hickory be absorbed by the meat. These are then left to hang overnight in the chiller to “Setup” (meaning setup; the meat relaxes & absorbs the brine & the smoke into the meat)

The Smoked Horseshoe Gammon is then “Netted” to hold the meat tight before placing into a vacuum sealed recyclable clear pouch. The natural moisture of the meat is retained by being sucked back into the meat to keep the flavour & texture in perfect condition. The pouches protect the piece when being frozen down to -18°c immediately after packing, during the delivery process, when in your fridge / freezer at home & when bringing up to temperature before cooking.

Food safety & provenance

Great care is taken when cutting & packing the Smoked Horseshoe Gammon because it gives a longer shelf life & a fresher flavour to the piece. The cutting rooms that produce all our products in are low in temperature to keep the meat cold & stop it from losing any moisture. The production areas are very hygienic & are under very strict BRCGS approved guidelines to produce the safest meat possible.

All the butchers & staff have to be in good health & wear fully protective clothing from head to toe whilst in or working in the clean production rooms. The staff maintain the cleanliness of the cutting blocks & work stations throughout the day.

The choice of Pork is from our Pietrain Pigs found in the Flanders area of Belgium because of the close proximity to the abattoir. We have long standing relationships with local farmers who have an excellent sustainable supply of quality pigs in their select herds, giving a much greater choice of high quality pork for production. The selected legs of Pork are then shipped to be hand made by skilled butchers local to our UK distribution.

For many years Roast Gammon has been used traditionally at Thanks Giving & Christmas in many households all over the world because it is easy to cook & not an expensive meat to buy. We enjoy having items like this available to buy on our website because it is great to see families or couples making tasty meals at home, that they can try new ideas without costing a small fortune from the butchers.

As this is a Smoked Horseshoe Gammon, the flavour is stronger & more delicious & this is why it is very popular as a regular festive treat. The subtle Smokey flavour in the slices on the plate really makes a difference as all those who have enjoyed good Barbecue will know!

These are easy to cook, just boil & allow around 25 minutes per 450-grams & an extra 20-30 minutes at the end. Make sure you remove the white foam like layer from the water at regular intervals, drain the gammon joint half way through the cooking period & leave to rest (Covered in tin foil, not tightly wrapped) for 15 mins. With the remaining time, carefully remove the skin & cover with glaze of your choice, then cover & pop into the oven to bake at around 180°c.

Then remove before finished, uncover the meat & pop back for a little browning off to finish to make your piece really stand out in the middle of the dinner table.

Enjoying this at home with family & friends is great but, sharing your cooks online with your followers is even better when others can gain inspiration & knowledge from what you do. Many people are searching on Google for new ideas & information about Smoked Horseshoe Gammon, your cooks will give them the help they need. 

Why not join Sherwood Foods on Social Media & tag us in your posts when cooking your Smoked Horseshoe Gammon. We are on Facebook , Instagram & Twitter  we can share your pictures, reels, videos, recipes, ideas, stories, recipes & cooking methods with our growing group of followers. We love to see how are meats are cooked in homes across the country, this makes everything we do all that more special.

Tagging us in your posts makes it easy for us follow what others post online with our meats, this means we can like & comment on your results. Hashtags are a different way to categorise your Social Media posts into groups like; recipes, cooking methods, types of meat cooked, recipes etc. People do follow Hashtags & they are a great way to get your posts seen by a different audience.

Enjoy your Smoked Horseshoe Gammon Joint at home, we look forward to seeing your results online.

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