P>S> If you buy the ham sliced at a delicatessed you DO NOT HAVE TO SOAK IT OR SCRUB IT. That has alrady been taken care of. All you have to do is eat it! ----- Original Message ----- From: <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 9:30 PM Subject: www.madeinva.com > There is a website called madeinvirginia.com where one can buy Edward's > hams. > BUT BUT BUT if buying an entire ham is a bit much I can highly recommend > this: > Go to a delicatessen and ask the person there if they carry gen-u-ine > "Smithfield Ham"....the dark red, looks dried up, stringy, salty stuff; it > almost looks like jerky. Boar's Head offers a good version although > Edward's > is probably, today, the best one around. Who knows? Maybe Boar's Head is > from Edwards? > Ask the person at the deli to slice you some but it absolutely MUST be > sliced paper-thin. and I mean paper-thin or it will be inedible. For about > a > dozen ham biscuits all you need is about one-half of a pound of what I've > just described: paper-thin- sliced SMITHFIELD HAM. > Now if you cannot find the Real Smithfield ham and the name is trademarked > so it has to be labeled that, a reasonable substitute is something called > Red Eye Ham which is similar to Smithfield but not quite the real > thing....but it ain't bad. > Smithfield ham is expensive.....about $12.00 per pound from a delicatessen > but a whole ham costs about $100.00 > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Clara Callahan" <[log in to unmask]> > To: <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 8:24 PM > Subject: Re: Speech patterns > > >> Thanks - I will get one. Sounds wonderful, er, except for the mold. >> >> Jessica Welton <[log in to unmask]> wrote: The best Virginia hams, in my >> humble opinion, are by Edwards....I >> think Williams Sonoma sells them. >> They have to be washed to scrub the mold off. No kidding. >> Soaking also leeches out some of the salt. How long you soak it >> depends on how salty you like it. >> >> On Jan 10, 2007, at 8:06 PM, Clara Callahan wrote: >> >>> What's a Smithfield ham and why do you have to wash it before you >>> eat it and where can I get one? >>> >>> "Grundset, Eric" wrote: Y'all are making me >>> hungry with all this talk of Smithfield ham and biscuits, which I >>> too remember fondly from childhood and meals at my aunt's house in >>> Colonial Heights. Thank goodness it is lunch time. >>> >>> Eric >>> >>> Eric G. Grundset >>> Library Director >>> DAR Library >>> National Society Daughters of the American Revolution >>> 1776 D St., N.W. >>> Washington, DC 20006-5303 >>> 202-879-3313 (phone) >>> 202-879-3227 (fax) >>> [log in to unmask] >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history >>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Excalibur131 >>> Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 12:25 PM >>> To: [log in to unmask] >>> Subject: Re: Speech patterns >>> >>> >>> Dare I say you let Smithfield ham dissolve on your tongue while >>> sucking the >>> essence and goodness out of it. Never, ever eaten the same way you >>> would eat >>> a regular piece of ham. YES, you have described silver dollar >>> biscuits -- >>> small, light, feathery, soft, nothing to detract from the treat >>> inside. AND >>> if you use butter, it must be the real thing, not some fake butter >>> wanna-be. >>> >>> Tom >>> Eastern Shore & More Forum >>> http://www.easternshoremore.com/forum/ >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> From: "Sunshine49" >>> To: >>> Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2007 11:55 AM >>> Subject: Re: Speech patterns >>> >>> >>>> you don't "bite" a piece of good Smithfield ham, you let it dissolve >>>> on your tongue... and a good biscuit is small and light, not those >>>> huge, heavy commercially available things that could double as >>>> sinkers on a fishing net. Almost unpalatable, IMO. >>>> >>>> Nancy >>> >>> To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the >>> instructions >>> at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html >>> >>> To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the >>> instructions >>> at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html >>> >>> >>> To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the >>> instructions >>> at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html >> >> To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions >> at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html >> >> >> To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions >> at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html >> > > To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions > at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html > To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html