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Farm Focus: Picnic Hams and Boston Butts
When is a butt a shoulder? When it’s a Boston Butt, of course! Boston Butts and Picnic Hams both use meat from the shoulder area of the hog. (The Boston Butt gets its name from the cask used to ship the meat in the Boston area). Cook shoulder meat low and slow, and the fatty connective tissue melts away, flavoring the meat with savory juices.
Boston butt lives high on the hog, above the shoulder blade, and has lots of luscious, marbled fat. Sitting below the butt is the pork shoulder. This cut includes most of the hog's front leg quarter. This meat is a little tougher than the butt, but again low and slow gives the meat succulence and incredible ...
