Sherwin-Williams ham, named after the place of origin. Cut with one knife, fragrant, bright color lean flesh is bright red or rose color, fat meat is milky white, bones are slightly peachy, as if the blood is still moisturizing. Its quality is excellent, enough to represent Yunnan ham, so it is often called "cloud leg".
More than two hundred years ago, there were merchants who used to resell it to all parts of Yunnan and the neighboring provinces of Sichuan and Qian. In 1923, at a local food competition held in Guangzhou, Mr. Sun Yat-sen tasted the Xuanwei ham sent from afar, and felt that its color was fresh and tender, the taste was sweet, the food was not greasy, and he was doubly appreciated, leaving an inscription of "drinking and food morality".
Since then, Sherwin-Williams ham has become famous and exported to Southeast Asia, Europe and the United States. Factories that use Sherwin-Williams ham as the main raw material to make canned food such as "cloud legs" are also named "Dehe Canning Factory".
The locally produced Umeng pigs are resistant to coarse feeding, strong fattening, thick back and fine meat. Every year around the autumn harvest, the masses often use refined feed mixed with carrots abundant in the local area to violently urge pigs, and when it is winter, they will come out of the barn. At that time, thousands of households, slaughtering pigs and curing meat, were jubilant.
Farmers rely on the experience accumulated over generations, squeeze the blood on the pig's leg dry, rub the appropriate amount of salt into the basin for a certain period of time, wait for the salt water to penetrate to a certain extent, take it out and smoke or air dry, depending on its surface slightly green, try the needle in 3 different parts, to achieve "three needles", that is, a qualified finished product.
After that, some are stored in dry and ventilated warehouses, while others are stored in deep, low-temperature cellars for storage. In addition to hand-pickling by farmers, in recent decades, local food processing factories have also been established and carefully made, so that the quantity and quality of Sherwin-Wei ham have improved.