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Examples
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You could walk into a deli and ask for “ein pfund aus schinken bitte” and walk out with a pound of sliced ham.
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That was the burden of their conversation, always, food -- bread, butter, potatoes, schinken (ham)!
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This practice still occurs today, with some of the most prized hams, such as prosciutto di Parma, jamon Serrano, Westphalian schinken and our own Boone County country cured ham, all using some modification of that age-old curing method.
columbiatribune.com stories < 2010
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This practice still occurs today, with some of the most prized hams, such as prosciutto di Parma, jamon Serrano, Westphalian schinken and our own Boone County country cured ham, all using some modification of that age-old curing method.
columbiatribune.com stories < 2010
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Inoculated with bacteria and hung to dry for a year or so, it becomes prosciutto, Bayonne or jamon; dry-cured and smoked it becomes what he Americans call country ham, the Germans schinken; boiled and lightly smoked it becomes York ham - the bright pink favourite of the British tea table.
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Inoculated with bacteria and hung to dry for a year or so, it becomes prosciutto, Bayonne or jamon; dry-cured and smoked it becomes what he Americans call country ham, the Germans schinken; boiled and lightly smoked it becomes York ham - the bright pink favourite of the British tea table.
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If you are really so very fond, you would do better to run away down and find the schinken and some bread, instead of talking all this nonsense "
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If you are really so very fond, you would do better to run away down and find the schinken and some bread, instead of talking all this nonsense. "
The Captain of the Polestar Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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