What is gammon in the UK?

What is gammon in the UK?

Gammon is the hind leg of pork after it has been cured by dry-salting or brining, which may or may not be smoked. The term is mostly used in the United Kingdom and Ireland, while other dialects of English largely make no distinction between gammon and ham.

What is gammon made out of?

Gammon is the name given to the meat from the hind legs of a pig that has been cured in the same way as bacon. The main difference between gammon and ham is that gammon will be sold raw and needs to be cooked; ham is sold cooked or dry-cured and ready for eating.

What part of a pig is gammon?

hind legs
Both gammon and ham are cuts from the hind legs of a pig, and are either salted, brined, or smoked.

What is the origin of the word gammon?

gammon (n.) “ham or haunch of a swine,” especially when smoked and cured, early 15c., gambon, from Old North French gambon “ham” (Old French jambon, 13c.), from gambe (Old French jambe) “leg,” from Late Latin gamba “leg of an animal” (see gambol (n.)).

What is the difference between Gammon and bacon?

All are cured meats, which means they are prepared using salt or brine and all can be smoked. So what’s the difference? Gammon comes from an old French word, Gambe, which means the hind leg. Bacon is meat cut from parts of the pig other than the legs, such as the loin, collar or the belly.

What does it mean to Gammon someone in backgammon?

Gammon. A completed game of backgammon in which the losing player has not borne off any checkers. A gammon is also called a double game because the winner receives twice the value of the doubling cube.

What is Gammon in Australia?

Gammon means pretend not lie. It was a word used commonly amongst Aboriginals and I remember using it in Darwin in 1948-54. Contributor’s comments: “Gammon” is also used in the Top End of the Northern Territory, not just Western Australia.

What is the difference between gammon and backgammon?

A gammon occurs when a game is over and the losing player still hasn’t borne off (i.e. removed from the board) any of their chips. A backgammon occurs when the losing player hasn’t borne off any chips and also has chips remaining in the winning player’s home (inner) quadrant or on the bar.

What is gammon called in Ireland?

Cant
Gammon, which is also called Cant, is a mixed language with heavy influences from Irish and Hiberno-English and is a part of Traveller culture.

What is the difference between Gammon and Ham?

The main difference between gammon and ham is that gammon will be sold raw and needs to be cooked; ham is sold cooked or dry-cured and ready for eating. Once gammon is cooked it can be called a ham and may be sold as a gammon ham.

What is gammon called in the USA?

Gammon refers to the upper portion of the pig’s hind leg that’s cured but not cooked and may or may not be smoked. In the United States this would be called ham, but in England it must be cooked to be ham.

What country does Gammon come from?

The Gammon family name was found in the USA, the UK, Canada, and Scotland between 1840 and 1920. The most Gammon families were found in the UK in 1891. In 1840 there were 42 Gammon families living in Maine. This was about 35% of all the recorded Gammon’s in the USA. Maine had the highest population of Gammon families in 1840.