Recipe: Pittsburgh Chipped Ham BBQ Sandwiches

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Pittsburgh Chipped Ham BBQ Sandwiches
From: Kate Connally
Newsgroup: rec.food.cooking
Date: 7-2-99

1 1/2 lb. chipped chopped ham

BBQ Sauce:
1 small onion, finely chopped
1/2 cup butter
2 cups ketchup
1/3 cup vinegar
1/2 cup water
2 tbsp. brown sugar
2 tsp. prepared mustard
2 tbsp. Worcestershire sauce

Saute onions in butter. When translucent add remaining ingredients and simmer 10 minutes. Stir in the ham and simmer another 5 minutes. Serve on hamburger buns, preferably the good ones from the bakery.

This BBQ sauce is the recipe in the old Good Housekeeping cookbook. The new editions no longer have the same recipe.

If you can't get chipped chopped ham where you are just use any sort of deli boiled ham and have it “chipped” or sliced tissue paper thin. Chipped chopped ham, referred to as chipped ham for short, is a pressed ham loaf that is sold at deli counters in the Pittsburgh area and is always chipped. I believe that the Pittsburgh company, Isaly's, invented it. Isaly's sells ice cream and meats and cold cuts. Their chipped ham is still marketed as the “original” chipped ham. They are also the inventors of Whitehouse ice cream which is what is called cherry vanilla in other areas. It is maraschino type cherries in vanilla ice cream. This would be the ideal dessert if you are having Chipped Ham BBQ for dinner.