Stuffed Ham

[homedepot20]

Originally Posted by Dukesdad

I'm heading to PA. Friday to visit family and this will be my contribution to the party. This started off as a 25 lb ham. My dad bought it and had it boned. I prefer it with the bone however he won't listen.
25 lb ham
2 big heads of cabbage
two god sized onions
I cheat and use the frozen greens
2 lbs each kale, mustard and collard greens. no turnip tops this year but I usually use them as well. (gives it a little bite)
4oz mustard seed
4 oz crushed red pepper
4 oz celery seed
couple shakes of black pepper
pint of good bourbon. (more if you don't have to work the next day)
I bake mine, have for years. This one will go at 325 untill about 7am tomorrow. Turns out great. Stuffed ham on wonder bread for lunch Thursday.

Bourbon , This I have to Make ! I take it you mix the bourbon with all the other stuffing before placing inside ham!

[RoseRed (Premo)]

Originally Posted by Pete

That first pic looks like a brain.

THE Brain?

[Dukesdad]

Originally Posted by homedepot20

Bourbon , This I have to Make ! I take it you mix the bourbon with all the other stuffing before placing inside ham!

Nope, drink it while stuffing the ham

Originally Posted by RoseRed

THE Brain?

Pinkie

[Bann (Premo)]

Originally Posted by Dukesdad

I bake mine, have for years. This one will go at 325 untill about 7am tomorrow. Turns out great. Stuffed ham on wonder bread for lunch Thursday.

Ooh, my mom baked ours one year. It was delicious!

[kom526]

How long do you bake it? I'm old school, so I boil mine (outside TYVM) but I love my food processor when it comes to chopping the greens.

[angel2202003]

Originally Posted by Dukesdad

I'm heading to PA. Friday to visit family and this will be my contribution to the party. This started off as a 25 lb ham. My dad bought it and had it boned. I prefer it with the bone however he won't listen.
25 lb ham
2 big heads of cabbage
two god sized onions
I cheat and use the frozen greens
2 lbs each kale, mustard and collard greens. no turnip tops this year but I usually use them as well. (gives it a little bite)
4oz mustard seed
4 oz crushed red pepper
4 oz celery seed
couple shakes of black pepper
pint of good bourbon. (more if you don't have to work the next day)
I bake mine, have for years. This one will go at 325 untill about 7am tomorrow. Turns out great. Stuffed ham on wonder bread for lunch Thursday.

How big is a "god" size onion?? Just wanted to know so I got the right size.

[ShyOne]

Originally Posted by kom526

How long do you bake it? I'm old school, so I boil mine (outside TYVM) but I love my food processor when it comes to chopping the greens.

I always boiled my ham now. Mom talked me into baking one year and I will never boil it again. It is less of a mess and cleanup is easier. The flavor inside the foil remains with the ham, therefore everything inside your house doesn't have the stuffed ham aroma. When I worked I could always tell who boiled a stuffed ham because you could smell it on their clothes....seriously.

[Dukesdad]

Originally Posted by kom526

How long do you bake it? I'm old school, so I boil mine (outside TYVM) but I love my food processor when it comes to chopping the greens.

It's kind of a guessing game since they tell you 20 minutes per pound. I never understood if that meant with or without stuffing...
Mine went from 9 last night to about 6 this morning and it is cooked through. Better to run a little over than under. I do it in an electric roaster.

Originally Posted by angel2202003

How big is a "god" size onion?? Just wanted to know so I got the right size.

They would be huge

the good sized ones I used were close to a pound each

Cut some this morning to bring in for the guys i work with and we are all salivating...

[smilin]

Originally Posted by Dukesdad

I'm heading to PA. Friday to visit family and this will be my contribution to the party. This started off as a 25 lb ham. My dad bought it and had it boned. I prefer it with the bone however he won't listen.
25 lb ham
2 big heads of cabbage
two god sized onions
I cheat and use the frozen greens
2 lbs each kale, mustard and collard greens. no turnip tops this year but I usually use them as well. (gives it a little bite)
4oz mustard seed
4 oz crushed red pepper
4 oz celery seed
couple shakes of black pepper
pint of good bourbon. (more if you don't have to work the next day)
I bake mine, have for years. This one will go at 325 untill about 7am tomorrow. Turns out great. Stuffed ham on wonder bread for lunch Thursday.

Corned Ham?
Baked sounds like an interesting idea. I'll try it.

[JoeMac]

To make a TRUE SOMD Stuffed Ham it must be boiled. Baking is not the correct way. When you boil it there is a specific step in the recipe that gives extra flavor and you can't do this when baking. This is why most of the commercially prepared stuff is just bland to me. I have been making it for 15 years, started out with my Grandma. I have gotten rave reviews from whoever has tried it and likes stuffed ham. Also anybody using frozen stuff, you might as well just buy it commercially then. A stuffed ham uses FRESH greens. I also have never put celery in mine. It cooks better with the bone and is much easier to stuff. I'm not sure when the de-boning became popular but it produces a lesser end product IMO. I cook mine an hour for every 5lbs. Usually about 4-5 hours. It is always done and it tends to hold it's shape a little better and is easier to slice and doesn't crumble all up.

I am thinking about selling it this year. Probably $8 a lb. I promise after you try it, you won't go back to McKay's or Lenny's or anywhere else. I put one ingredient in my ham that no commercial processor can L.O.V.E.