Goob's homemade SPAM®

[wyogoob]

Good grief, who doesn't like SPAM®.

Mystery meat? I don't think so. SPAM stands for "spiced ham" Hormel posts all the ingredients of SPAM on their web site; pork shoulder, cured ham, water, potato starch, salt, sugar, and sodium nitrite cure: http://www.spam.com/spam-101/what-is-spam-classic

My first attempt at SPAM®:


Homemade Spiced Ham (SPAM®)

Ingredients:
4 1/2 lbs - fatty pork shoulder
1/2 lb - cured ham
2 1/2 tbsp - Morton's Tender Quick
1/2 cup - potato flour
2 tbsp - dextrose
1/2 tsp - garlic powder
2 pkgs - Knox gelatin, (1/2 oz total)
1 cup - water

Directions:
Total fat should be approximately 25%.
Trim any dark skin from the ham.
Keep pork frosty.
Grind meat through a 3/4" plate or cut into small chunks.
Mix remainder of ingredients.
Keep meat frosty.
Place meat in a tub and blend in the spice/cure. Do not add any water yet.
Grind meat thru a 3/16" plate into a plastic tub.
Push the meat out flat in the tub and then distribute the water evenly over the ground meat.
Mix the water into the ground meat until it is sticky.
With wet hands roll out balls of sausage about the size of a grapefruit.
Pack sausage tightly into bread, mini loaf, or cake pans.
Bake in a pre-heated 225° oven. Monitor grease level; drain if necessary.
Bake until internal temp is 155°.









I need to work on how and when to blend in the potato starch and eliminating air pockets.

[iceman]

Looks mighty fine to me  ;) Bet it tastes better than the canned version.

[Tenpoint5]

That looks interesting

[TMB]

That looks interesting

It really does.  Wonder how it would be grilled with cheese?  ;)

[Ka Honu]

Next time you have your smoker running, throw a block or three in for a while. Comes out awesome!