On 12/13/2014 12:46 PM, Brooklyn1 wrote:
> Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>> Julie Bove wrote:
>>
>>> Have you decided what you will make or serve?
>>
>> Picked up our bone in ham from Nodines last week.
>> It is a big ham so some will be frozen for the future.
>> Ham means cabbage soup the following week.
>
> Cured or fresh?
>
> Never occurs to me to put ham in cabbage soup, perhaps smoked cured
> ham for a sauerkraut soup/braise of sorts... to me cured ham invokes
> bean/pea soup... can't think of a soup with fresh ham, maybe a Chinese
> restaurant soup with julienned roast fresh ham/pork.

Cured. My wife put the bone in the pot for starters, then adds some cut
up ham, potatoes, carrots, celery,a can or two of tomato soup, and
finally the cabbage. Her mother made it that way and so it continues.