Ham bags

maxi27, Dec 18, 12:57am
could someone please tell me do you trim the fat off the ham when storing it in a ham bag! I'm sure I was told to do this ages ago, but I don't ever
remember anyone else doing this.

scout_6001, Dec 18, 1:04am
I don't take the fat off it, as I think it keeps the ham moist.I soak the ham bag in a solution of approximately 4 cups of water and 2 tablespoons of vinegar.Wring it out and place the ham inside.Repeat every few days or when bag dries out. Store in the fridge.

maxi27, Dec 18, 1:14am
Thank you so much, nothing worse than a dry ham, which would probably go off fairly quickly if left like that. Have a great xmas scout_6001 and thanks again.

maxi27, Dec 18, 1:16am
forgot to ask, is it brown or white vinegar!

scout_6001, Dec 18, 1:25am
Thanks Maxi.I always use white vinegar.

maxi27, Dec 18, 1:42am
Thanks again scout_6001

1gypsylee, Dec 18, 4:05am
Why buy ham bag! only calico! Have always used damp T towel (not your towelling ones though)

harrislucinda, Dec 18, 4:16am
becauseanotherway tomakemoney

purplegoanna, Dec 18, 4:35am
yip i change my bag every third day, BTW my bags are homemade out of teatowels sewn together!

rainrain1, Dec 18, 4:45am
Some scientist may at last disperse
The mysteries of the universe
But me, I cannot even think
Why pork is white and ham is pink

elliehen, Dec 18, 4:52am
No scientist, but not a dolt,
It's all to do with smoke and salt
Though in some fridges I have seen
Ham that's postively green

rainrain1, Dec 18, 4:59am
If squabbles and fights became xmas lights, wouldn't xmas be a wonderful thing!

elliehen, Dec 18, 5:20am
rainrain's post at #10 was this one of poet Ogden Nash's brilliant short poems:

Some scientist may at last disperse
The mysteries of the universe
But me, I can not even think
Why pork is white and ham is pink
--Ogden Nash

I thought it a good idea to reply in verse with:

No scientist, but not a dolt,
It's all to do with smoke and salt
Though in some fridges I have seen
Ham that's postively green

.but mine was clearly verse, or worse ;)

rainrain1, Dec 18, 5:27am
God you're a funny kind of a person.I actually didn't mean to delete that post.was about to put it back up myself but you saved me the troublexxxxx's for elliehen

elliehen, Dec 18, 6:00am
.the 'funny kind of person' who loves anything to do with words and books. Here's a Christmas Carol parody for you.more enjoyable if you know the music to 'Good King Wenceslas' :)

Good King…

Good King Wenceslas looked out
on the feast of Eustace
saying to a passing trout -
nothing rhymes with Eustace

“Maybe not” the trout replied
taking off his glasses
“But you might at least have tried”
(cows enjoy molasses)

“Look beyond the harbour light
tell me what is sailing
I no longer see the sight
for my toes are failing”

“Nothing but a virtual tree
gaily hung with presents
tartan slippers, two or three
and a brace of pheasants”

“Fetch the pheasants ere they drown
garnish them with spices
roast them till they’re golden brown
serve them up with ices

We shall have a merry pheast
trout and king together
kingy man and swimmy beast
clad in yellow leather”

Quoth the raven “nevermore
shall I dine with Wency
he has gone to distant shore
we won’t him again see

Why did he desert us so
on the feast of Steven!”
(from the distance “HoHoHo
Santa Claus gets even”)

If you’ve read it to the end
don’t be disappointed
Merry Christmas, cyber-friend.
(pigs are double jointed)

Copyright (c) Dave McClure

rainrain1, Dec 18, 6:10am
Why don't you write your own poetry, funny person

elliehen, Dec 18, 6:21am
Why don't you!

That was a funny one of Ogden Nash's you found and liked and you had a shot at some verse with rhyming 'fights and 'lights' :)

rainrain1, Dec 18, 6:28am
I didn't say I wrote It did I!What's the all this fuss at xmas time for

elliehen, Dec 18, 6:32am
I give up.lost in translation.

rainrain1, Dec 18, 6:39am
chicken