Joulukinkku

[Roxlintu]

Hi

Hubby and I are spending xmas back in the UK and he is insisting I cook joulukinkku to go with my mum's turkey. So can anyone tell me what exactly I should ask for when I go to the English butcher because every ham I showed him in Tesco last time we visited was 'wrong'. I'm pretty sure I'll get it wrong if I don't ask advice from you guys. Whilst my husband knows what a joulukinkku IS NOT he cannot tell me what one is.

Thanks in advance.

R

[Jukka Aho]

Hubby and I are spending xmas back in the UK and he is insisting I cook joulukinkku to go with my mum's turkey. So can anyone tell me what exactly I should ask for when I go to the English butcher because every ham I showed him in Tesco last time we visited was 'wrong'. I'm pretty sure I'll get it wrong if I don't ask advice from you guys. Whilst my husband knows what a joulukinkku IS NOT he cannot tell me what one is. :D

Would a butcher’s meat-cutting diagram help? (Kinkku is, logically enough, the bit marked with the word kinkku.) And while you’re at it, you might as well show the butcher a couple of photographs, too: Image #1, Image #2.

Here’s how the prepared/baked/decorated end result should look like.

(Note that the hams available in Finnish supermarkets during Christmas time are usually salted, whereas you might need to do that bit yourself if you’re getting it straight from a butcher’s. The aforementioned link has some instructions on how to do that... and there’s probably more information on the web about preparing Finnish-style Christmas ham when stranded abroad if you just search around a bit... both in Finnish and in English.)

Edit: A couple of older threads about traditional Finnish Christmas dishes, including some discussion about the ham:

• ham and such...
• Do Finns usually make the Christmas casseroles themselves?

[Roxlintu]

aaah thank you so much, just what I was looking for!

[Rosamunda]

Here's Delia's.

http://www.deliaonline.com/how-to-cook/ ... d-ham.html

Nigella does one in Coca Cola, never tried it but apparently it works.

You can buy Christmas hams on-line in the UK. There are some addresses in the back of Delia's books (she just brought out a new Xmas cookery book) and also there's the Hugh F*** Whatsit Meat book.

OTOH, there's a postal strike....


And don't forget to take the Turun sinappi with you.

[Jukka Aho]

And don't forget to take the Turun sinappi with you.

“Turun” sinappi is made in Poland these days, not in Turku any longer. (Unilever owns the trademark and they do whatever they please with it.)

I’d recommend Auran sinappi, instead – made by the same people in Turku who formerly made Turun sinappi for Jalostaja (and then Unilever for a while.)

[raamv]

And don't forget to take the Turun sinappi with you.

“Turun” sinappi is made in Poland these days, not in Turku any longer. (Unilever owns the trademark and they do whatever they please with it.)

I’d recommend Auran sinappi, instead – made by the same people in Turku who formerly made Turun sinappi for Jalostaja (and then Unilever for a while.)

Yep!! Realized it some time ago and have been using Auran for a while... The tastes are pretty different.