How to Make Ham Broth

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[feather]

I'm not eating anything meat anymore....but ham broth is really lovely especially with split pea soup.

The only way I've made it, is to buy a smoked ham, then I package the ham meat, leaving the ham bone. The ham bone usually has meat on it in a scruffy sort of fashion, some bone, some fat in the middle of the bone (marrow). I freeze the bone until I'm ready to deal with it.

When I'm ready to deal with it, I boil the bone in a large pot of water, usually about 6 quarts. Boil it for a few hours. Remove any meat from the bone and return it to the broth. The part you throw away is the hollow bone.

[Melissa]

I add some garlic, onion, pepper- ham is usually salty so it generally doesn't need much salt, can add some celery especially the leafy part. Cook a long time and strain.

[paquebot]

Don't forget to also use any skin that may be on the ham. There's a layer on nuce fat between that and the meat. Cut in ½" strips to get maximum good out of the ham.

Martin

[wally]

We take the ham broth, fill a ice cube tray or 2, freeze and use the cubes to flavor several dishes..

[themotherhen]

Jan 5, 2019 2:09:26 GMT feather said:

I'm not eating anything meat anymore....but ham broth is really lovely especially with split pea soup.

The only way I've made it, is to buy a smoked ham, then I package the ham meat, leaving the ham bone. The ham bone usually has meat on it in a scruffy sort of fashion, some bone, some fat in the middle of the bone (marrow). I freeze the bone until I'm ready to deal with it.

When I'm ready to deal with it, I boil the bone in a large pot of water, usually about 6 quarts. Boil it for a few hours. Remove any meat from the bone and return it to the broth. The part you throw away is the hollow bone.

This is how I make ham broth too. I don't eat split pea soup (long story, forced to eat it as a child, ugh!) But I use it to make navy bean soup that I serve with cornbread. A long, slow simmer is good so I usually use my crockpot overnight to make the broth. 

[Maura]

You can also put it in a slow cooker on high so it simmers all night. Obviously, you would add water.

[susannah]

I make ham broth pretty much the way Melissa does. Come to think of it, I just might have gotten the idea for it from her! We love using ham broth in variations of potato soup. Some of the potato soup recipes I've seen call for chicken broth but let me tell you, ham broth is absolutely wonderful in potato soup!

[mogal]

Any time I simmer bones for broth, I add a tablespoon or two of apple cider vinegar to help dissolve minerals from the bones. You can't taste the ACV in the finished broth.

[paquebot]

Jan 7, 2019 12:48:52 GMT mogal said:

Any time I simmer bones for broth, I add a tablespoon or two of apple cider vinegar to help dissolve minerals from the bones. You can't taste the ACV in the finished broth.

Does that workl on ham bones?  I ask because they are the slowewst to dissolve in soil.  Chicken and turkey bones quicly vanish in the compost tuimbler.  A few deer bones make it out but soon gone in the acidic soil.  Ham bones are  virtually intact after 5 years.

Martin 

[mogal]

Jan 11, 2019 20:01:59 GMT paquebot said:

Jan 7, 2019 12:48:52 GMT mogal said:

Any time I simmer bones for broth, I add a tablespoon or two of apple cider vinegar to help dissolve minerals from the bones. You can't taste the ACV in the finished broth.

Does that workl on ham bones?  I ask because they are the slowewst to dissolve in soil.  Chicken and turkey bones quicly vanish in the compost tuimbler.  A few deer bones make it out but soon gone in the acidic soil.  Ham bones are  virtually intact after 5 years.

Martin 

Martin, I've just assumed it works.  I don't usually put pork bones in the compost since they still seem to be attractive to the dogs--Pyrenees who can get into just about anything.  I don't have a tumbler and have had poultry bones stick around for ages in the garden beds--they don't attract the dogs for some reason.  This part of Missouri is underlaid with limestone so probably not as acidic as your soil.  

[paquebot]

mogal,you already have found why your poultry bones stick around for awhile. Your soil base is alkaline from the limestone. Turkey legs may make it thorugh the tumbler but don't last long in the soil. If you were to just crack them first, they would breeak down quicker. Major bones are designed to prevent bacteria from getting inside. If bacteria can get in, the bones are consumed from the inside. Seems to work quickly on everything except ham bones. Deer leg bones cracked into 4" lenghts totally vanish in a few months in the tumbler. Ham bones come out looking just as they did when they went in.

Martin