Beer ham

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Sliced ​​beer ham

As Bierschinken different meats and sausages are made from pork called, typically for beer are consumed as a snack or cold cuts.

Manufacturing

In general, beer ham is a boiled sausage with coarse meat. A mixture of cold cuts and fat-free and sinew-free pork is used for the production . Typical spices are pepper , matzo and ginger . Nitrite curing salt is used for flavoring and reddening . In preparation, the meat is cut into cherry to walnut-sized cubes and salted. This is only a salting process, not a curing process , after which it is intensively kneaded with the other spices. Finally, mix the meat cubes evenly with the sausage meat. The sausages are filled in brown artificial casings with a caliber of 90/50 and cooked (scalded) in water or steam for 120 minutes. After cooling, they can be consumed immediately.

variants

  • Bavarian beer ham also contains mustard seeds and chopped pistachios
  • A proportion of 80% meat and 20% sausage meat is used for stuffed ham , while it is usually 60% meat and 40% sausage meat
  • For cheese beer ham , the finished sausage meat mixture is mixed with cheese cubes. Cheeses with a low fat content are used for this.
  • Green pepper without brine is used for pepper and beer ham . In contrast to other variants, this is smoked hot after brewing .
  • Beer ham, reduced-fat consists of 80% meat and 20% reduced-fat base meat.
  • For turkey beer ham , the pork and roast meat are replaced by turkey . Poultry beer ham contains different proportions of turkey and chicken meat.
  • For beef beer ham , the pork is exchanged for fat-free and sinew-free beef . This is cut or shredded into strips (approx. 8 × 40 mm) instead of cubes. This increases the cooking time to 150 minutes.

Real beer ham

This is a meat product , in contrast to the sausage products. Meat parts are usually used for the preparation, which are also used for rolled ham , shaped ham and cooked ham . When Nasspökeln some of the water is the Lake by dark lager replaced. The rest of the production corresponds to the meat products mentioned.

A specialty is real beer ham made from pork loin. For this purpose, two cured pork salmon are joined on the bone side with aspic and wrapped in an intestine . This is then bridged or pressed with a cooking mold. In this form it is then cooked in water or stock. A variant of this is smoked warm after cooking.

See also

literature

  • Hermann Koch, Martin Fuchs: The manufacture of fine meat and sausage products. 22nd expanded edition. Deutscher Fachverlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-86641-187-6 .
  • German food book, guidelines for meat and meat products, LS: 2.224 ff.

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