Ardenne Ham

Ardenne Ham is not the same as Ardennes Dry Ham ("Jambon sec des Ardennes"), which is from France.

Ardenne Ham is a salt-cured, air-dried ham made in Belgium, in the province of Luxembourg (sic.)

It may be bone-in or boneless.

It may be wet-cured, but not through injection of the brine.

It can be smoked (but wood from coniferous trees can't be used.)

Ardenne Ham obtained legal recognition in Belgium on 4 February 1974, at which time the rules of how it can be made were set down. It must be produced in either Luxembourg province or in Liège and Namur provinces. If made in Liège and Namur provinces, it can only be made in the following cantons of those two provinces: Beauraing, Gedinne, Rochefort, Dinant, Ferrières, Stavelot, Malmédy, Saint-Vith, Louveigné, Spa or Eupen.

The ham had its Belgian legal recognition promoted to European PGI status in 1996. The syndicate administering the PGI status is called "A.S.B.L. Pour l’Usage et la Défense de l’Appellation "Jambon d’Ardenne", located in Marloie, Belgium. Needs no cooking. Serve it as it comes, sliced thinly.

You can fry it, if you slice it more thickly.

Also called:

Protected Geographic Indication

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