My son in law brought back from Gemany something called Pfefferschinken roh
it is some kind of cured meat, almost looks like bacon with a little edge of fat but mostly meat.
The label is in German and google searches turn up only German language sites.
Anyone have a clue what this is? Or should I just open it up and attempt to eat it?
From what I was able to find, it sounds like a raw peppered ham of some sort. I would fry it up and eat it.
Yes it is pepper ham =)
Use it like you would prosciutto. Wrap a slice around a slice of melon =) Trust me.
Thank you, yes, I can see a crust of pepper…it looks delicious we just didn’t know what to do with it or how to prepare/serve it.
Thanks for your suggestions. Proscuitto I’m familiar with and yes wrapped around melon or maybe a scallop might be just the ticket.
I’ll let you know what happens.
Customs let him bring in a “raw” meat product? Cool for him. Please send it to me in Tampa and I’ll, um, test it for safety. Yeah, that’s the ticket.
That sounds like pepper coated Back Fat, to me… to translate. Maybe to make the proper American version you could roll some cubes of 60% Fresh Pork Belly or Pancetta and 40% salt Pork in coarse crushed pepper. Add to some Collards and vinegar likker.
It would be cured, not raw. Don’t know the customs regulations regarding that.
I asked Tony, today why he has a definite prejudice against the Germanic cooking arts…It never registered to him synchronus and within the stream. Looks like Tony has been taking fashion tips from Zimmern, lately. He was wearing a Snooks sweater… Mr. Rogers.
Pretty sure it’s not allowed. We’ve had sausages and vacuum-packed sliced Hungarian salami (a cured and smoked product) confiscated from our luggage. The jars and tins of goose liver were fine, though. This is not to say we haven’t gotten sausage and cured meats through before, but if they do check or if you declare, they’ll take it. The most recent time this happened to me or a family member was in 2009, so it’s possible the rules have changed, but they were quite strict about it at the time. My father was coming in from Poland, and they scanned all the luggage on the way out of the airport, and found the rogue sausages. (They missed one that my father didn’t know about.)
Here’s some stories from 2006 about trying to sneak cured meats, even vacuum-packed ones, through customs.
Literally, it’s “peppered ham.” Back fat would be some form of speck in German, no? (while schinken would be a ham.)
Yes, But I don’t know… this doesn’t sound German… It sounds Swiss or Austrian.
Does it look like this?
Pfefferschinken = ham with a pepper crust
roh = raw
Use it like you would any other raw ham. Personally I’d slice it thinly and eat it on sandwiches.
Yes, most have given the correct response - it is prosciutto slammed in peppercorns - when you see it in stores in Germany (in original, uncut version) it is one large black ham coated with pepper.
Regarding getting this into the US, congrats!
I find it so odd that customs is so anal about this - if anything, Western European countries probably have a stricter code for food than we do.
I used to have friends bring those great Hungarian salamis, but sadly, no longer possible.
Plus - WTF is it with no longer allowing chocolates to be brought in?!
Seriously…chocolates?
Exactly how big is the Hershey lobby in Washington these days?
Wait, what? When did this happen?
Sort of wondering that myself, I brought back about a kilo of assorted chocolate in my computer case last summer, and some packets of arsch mit ohren, and gummi smurfs for a few friends that asked for me to bring back some specific stuff they cant get over here and I had no problem getting it through customs. Actually the customs guys thought the AmO were hysterically funny…
That’s literally “asses with ears”…isn’t it?
Too funny.
Correct. And I would like to take this opportunity to say my favorite German food word for a creamy condiment: mit schlag. Say it with me, everybody: schlaaaaag.
Don’t cook it!!! That is some delicious stuff. Butter up some rye bread and make yourself a sandwich.
Yup. Cute candy =)