Show TABLE DELICACY OF GERMANY West ham Is given its piquant taste by the use of juniper berries wherever a german table delicacy Is in n demand there is the ec ham to be found it Is given its p peculiar ullar piquant taste by the use ot of juniper berries in smoking the meat the juniper shrub Is indigenous to northwestern germany ge amany and so BO dicurti tul ful especially in westphalia that to its presence is due the growth during the past fl several everal centuries of two principal industries of 0 this german province the distillation of gin and the preparation of hams after weeks of reparation preparation the hams are ready to be smoked the smoke houses consist sometimes of two and sometimes of 0 three stories the fire being kindled in the lowest and the meat hung bung in the second and third to which the smoke ascends through holes in the flooring hams are invariably smoked over a bright fire made of beechwood beech wood only except that juniper twigs and berries are constantly thrown on the fire are beech beechwood wood sawdust la Is strewn over over the fire in cask case it becomes too strong the smoking process requires on an aver about eight days |