What kind of food is speck?

Answer 1

Speck is a type of Italian ham called prosciutto.......... It is leg of pork which has been cured in salt and spice's such as garlic, bay leaves, juniper berries and nutmeg. Then rested for several weeks before being cold-smoked slowley at 20°C or lower for two or three hours a day roughly a week using woods such as beech. The speck is then allowed to mature for about five months.

Answer 2

An Italian cured, smoked meat native to the Alto Adige, a region that straddles Northern Italy and Southern Austria. To make speck, a boned pork leg is cured in salt, and spices like laurel and juniper, then intermittently slow-smoked, using pine or juniper wood for several months