Smoked Fresh Heritage Presentation Ham With Apple Jus

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This ham, truly a smoked and grill-roasted limb of pork, makes a stunning presumption -- a existent showstopper. Rubbing vinegar connected the ham's tegument makes it get other crispy and acheronian from the smoking process. Reduced pome foodstuff successful the drip cookware turns into a affluent jus, acheronian similar coffee. It beautifully complements the ham's bold pork flavor.

For this recipe, usage a heritage-breed pig known for its lavish fat, specified arsenic Mulefoot oregon Berkshire (Kurobuta). Do not usage factory-raised pork that you find successful a market store; it won't person capable abdominous successful it.

You'll request 4 ample chunks of hickory wood for the grill, a distant thermometer and 2 ample brining bags.

Give yourself clip to marque this ham. It's champion if it brines for 24 hours and past dries successful the refrigerator for an further 12 hours. It is champion to brine it astatine night, past commencement drying it overnight the adjacent time oregon night. Then it's acceptable to fume the pursuing day. (In different words, commencement 2 days up of time.) The pome foodstuff simplification tin beryllium made a time oregon 2 successful advance.

From Sourced columnist David Hagedorn.

Ingredients

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Servings: 14

For the brine and ham

  • 5 ample stems rosemary
  • 2 bay leaves
  • 5 mean cloves garlic, crushed
  • 10 full achromatic peppercorns
  • 1/2 cupful kosher salt
  • 1/2 cupful sugar
  • 8 quarts water, oregon arsenic needed
  • 10-pound practice pork ham shank, specified arsenic Mulefoot oregon Berkshire, skin-on (see headnote and related sidebar)

For the ham and jus

  • 8 cups unsweetened pome juice
  • 1/2 clump thyme
  • 5 ample stems rosemary
  • 1 ample bay leaf
  • 2 ample cloves garlic, crushed
  • 10 achromatic peppercorns
  • 1/4 cupful cider vinegar
  • 2 tablespoons homemade oregon store-bought barbecue rub
  • 1/2 cupful water, oregon arsenic needed
  • Salt
  • Freshly crushed achromatic pepper

From Sourced columnist David Hagedorn.

Tested by David Hagedorn.

Published March 20, 2012

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Updated March 14, 2026

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