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Presunto de BarrancosvsSchwarzwälder Schinken

pork · Close equivalent

These cuts are closely equivalent — the same or nearly identical cut across different butchery traditions.

Both PGI European cured hams; Barrancos is air-cured without smoke (Iberian tradition), Schwarzwälder is cold-smoked over fir.

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These are near equivalents in the way butchers and cooks use them. If you can source either one, you're very close to the same result.

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Presunto de Barrancos
Pork · Leg

Portugal's PGI-protected cured ham, made from the rear leg of the *porco preto Alentejano* — the Portuguese black pig, closely related to the Spanish Iberian pig and one of the…

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Schwarzwälder Schinken
Pork · Leg

Germany's PGI-protected Black Forest ham, cured and cold-smoked in the Black Forest region of Baden-Württemberg. The rear leg is dry-salted with a spice rub (juniper, garlic,…

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Names by country

CountryPresunto de BarrancosSchwarzwälder Schinken
🇺🇸United StatesBarrancos hamBlack Forest ham
🇬🇧United KingdomBarrancos hamBlack Forest ham
🇫🇷FranceJambon de BarrancosJambon de la Forêt-Noire
🇪🇸SpainJamón de BarrancosJamón de la Selva Negra
🇵🇹PortugalPresunto de BarrancosPresunto da Floresta Negra
🇧🇷BrazilPresunto de BarrancosPresunto da Floresta Negra
🇮🇹ItalyProsciutto di BarrancosSpeck della Foresta Nera
🇩🇪GermanySchwarzwälder Schinken

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