All it takes is a thin slice of this seasoned ... ideally a light-colored, fresh ham from a trustworthy source. Salt is critical in the creation of a delicious home-cured pork roast.

Jim’s thickly sliced, dry-cure bacon doesn’t shrink ... I tried one at home, just to be sure I had the hang of it. You have to take the ham out of the bag every 24 hours, drain off any liquid ...

We home-cure our ham at The Scran & Scallie and serve ... Plate the vegetables and add thinly sliced ham, topped with half a boiled egg each. Pour over the beurre blanc to taste.

(Humans aren't the only ones with a taste for cured meat, however; home curers should beware the cheese skipper, larder beetle, and red-legged ham beetle ... which is sliced off before cooking ...

It’s a lean protein with big flavor. The first thing to know about sliced ham is that there are two basic types; cured and uncured. Cured ham relies on potentially harmful chemicals — sodium n ...