Jinhua ham sausage can be soaked or not before eating, generally speaking, soak it will be a little more delicious.

Jinhua ham sausage is a kind of cured food, the texture is very hard, if you do not want to eat raw hard ham sausage, then you can use water to soak a soak, you can add the right amount of water inside the water, which can help to soften the meat, more convenient to clean.

If you soak it in salt water, it will make the salty flavor inside the ham sausage more prominent and the ham sausage will taste better, so it's best to put it in the water and soak it for a while before serving. The soaking time is about 2~4 hours, and it is better to take longer, not less than 2 hours. In the process of making Jinhua ham, it has gone through a long time of air-drying and fermentation, which is why the texture of ham sausage can be so hard.

If you soak it in water, it is best to use warm water because it softens the ham sausage better, and if you soak it in cold water, it will take longer. The soaking time must not be too short, if the soaking time is too short, the ham is not completely softened, it is difficult to clean, and there is no way to soak out the salty flavor inside, the taste will be very salty after cooking.

Jinhua ham's history:

Jinhua ham's origin and the Song Dynasty anti-Jin Jin famous general Zong Ze, when Zong Ze anti-Jin victory and also, the townspeople scrambled to send a pig's leg to let it bring back to Kaifeng to comfort the soldiers, because of the long distance, the townspeople salt curing pig's leg in order to carry, the curing pig's leg red color like fire, it is known as the ham.

After the Zongze "pickled legs" offered to the court, King of Kang Zhao Jiu see its meat color red like fire, praise, the Royal name "ham", more ham to add to the flowers. And because of the Southern Song period of Dongyang, Yiwu, Lanxi, Pujiang, Yongkang, Jinhua and other places are Jinhua Province jurisdiction, so the production of ham in these areas collectively referred to as Jinhua ham.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Jinhua Ham