FOOD RESOURCE COLLEGE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SCIENCES, OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY
FORELEG HAM, JAMBONNEAU
Excerpted and Adapted from Escoffier, A. and P.H. Gilbert. Edited by Charlotte Turgeon and Nina Froud. 1961. The World Authority. Larousse Gastronomique. The Encyclopedia of Food, Wine & Cookery.
is the French word jambonneau, sometimes translated 'foreleg ham', or in the U.S.A. p0icnic ham, refers to the portion below the ham or should of both fore and hind legs of the pig.