Sleep cooking a country ham is a method that involves slow-cooking a salt-cured ham for 24 hours. There are a few pioneer cooking techniques involved in this recipe — and you may want to wear a raincoat to protect yourself from hot stove water.
from you, our readers and listeners, and the special stories behind them. We'll continue to share more of your kitchen gems throughout the holidays.When Linda Ishmael was growing up, her family's Christmas celebrations always included"putting the ham to sleep" to get it ready for the holiday dinner, when dozens of family members would visit their Kentucky farm.
Ishmael lives in Flemingsburg, Ky., just about 4 miles from where she grew up on hundreds of acres of land with her parents, siblings, aunt, uncle, cousins and grandparents. Out of all the kids, Ishmael said, she was the only one interested in being in the kitchen with her grandmother."I would leave my house and go up, either walk or bicycle up, to my grandparents' home ... so I was always there, kind of as part of the prep work," Ishmael said.
Ishmael uses a plastic pot scrubber to clean the ham under cool running water. Then she soaks the ham in a pot of water for 24 hours. This helps rehydrate the ham and gets a good portion of the salt out, Ishmael said. "My grandfather put a raincoat on so that hot water wouldn't splash on him when he took it off the stove, and he'd always wink at me and say, you know, 'It's better to be safe than sorry,'" Ishmael recalled.A Taste Of Lab-Grown Meat
"It really created a good insulator, because when 24 hours pass and you come back to take these things off, unwrap it, you want it still to be extremely hot in the pot," she said.
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