10-31-2021, 08:10 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-31-2021, 08:18 PM by ShadowsDad.)
Well, not so much cooked yet...
the other day the wife and I went into the far too stuffed chest freezer to pull out some things for future meals. I had my mind on some steaks and pulled out some ribeyes and lamb steaks. While I was doing that I thought the wife was having an attack of some sort. Then I heard, "Look at that! We have more Taylor ham!". We thought we'd eaten the last of it long ago. For those who have never heard of it, it's made from pork and a bacillis is added to it and the roll is cured to make it sour. It might not sound good, but I assure you that it's delicious. Anyone from the NY/NJ/eastern PA area knows what it is and if they live elsewhere when anyone comes to visit the request is made to bring as much of it as they can carry. Yesterday I sliced it up, eating some w/o frying it. It's precooked so I wasn't eating raw pork.
FWIW, there are other "pork rolls" but they aren't the same, not even close. They lack the sour tang. FWIW#2, I have been known to make my own, with the bacillis, and it's possibly better than the Taylor version. I cure mine long enough to get a full cure and tang.
Amazon and various other retailers have it and will ship it, but they think it's made of gold and price it as such. But that tells you the degree of longing that have for the product who moved away, that they can charge such prices and stay in business. (I've seen it as high as $44 +shipping for 3#)
More than you ever wanted to know about Taylor Ham aka Taylor Pork roll. https://jerseyporkroll.com/
the other day the wife and I went into the far too stuffed chest freezer to pull out some things for future meals. I had my mind on some steaks and pulled out some ribeyes and lamb steaks. While I was doing that I thought the wife was having an attack of some sort. Then I heard, "Look at that! We have more Taylor ham!". We thought we'd eaten the last of it long ago. For those who have never heard of it, it's made from pork and a bacillis is added to it and the roll is cured to make it sour. It might not sound good, but I assure you that it's delicious. Anyone from the NY/NJ/eastern PA area knows what it is and if they live elsewhere when anyone comes to visit the request is made to bring as much of it as they can carry. Yesterday I sliced it up, eating some w/o frying it. It's precooked so I wasn't eating raw pork.
FWIW, there are other "pork rolls" but they aren't the same, not even close. They lack the sour tang. FWIW#2, I have been known to make my own, with the bacillis, and it's possibly better than the Taylor version. I cure mine long enough to get a full cure and tang.
Amazon and various other retailers have it and will ship it, but they think it's made of gold and price it as such. But that tells you the degree of longing that have for the product who moved away, that they can charge such prices and stay in business. (I've seen it as high as $44 +shipping for 3#)
More than you ever wanted to know about Taylor Ham aka Taylor Pork roll. https://jerseyporkroll.com/