i use lleggs old plantation seasoning and add sage . yeah winters here are milder than they used to be , everybody used to kill thanksgiving day . now days you can't depend on it staying cold enough till about now . even this time of year it can get up to 70 in the afternoon s for several days at a time .
i'm surprised that hams can be cured that far south . we need to visit and swap info on the phone sometime .
They won't cure this far south neither with the bone in, the marrow spoils the meat so we have to De-bone everything and salt cure it thatway. Our smokehouse is designed for a cold smoke, but lately we have building a fire in the smokehouse.
I've never heard of the black pepper trick neither.
