Pork cut: where it is, price, recipes
Fresh ham
Ham before it is cured: the raw, unsalted hind leg. Roasted whole with its skin scored in a diamond pattern, it is a Southern holiday roast that surprises anyone who only knows ham pink.
- Roasted
- Smoked
- Braised
$6/ lb
- In French
- Fresh ham (jambon frais)
- French cuts
- Jambon, Noix de jambon, Sous-noix, Noix pâtissière
- Where it sits
- Leg. Cooked, air-dried, smoked or roasted fresh: the same leg changes its name with each treatment.
- Tenderness
- 3/5
- Flavor
- 4/5
- Marbling
- 2/5
- Price
- $6 / lb ·
- Actual size
- ~55 cm
