Baked Ham

Ingredients

• a ham under a year old
• cold water
• about 1 tablespoonful
• 1 tablespoon butter
• 1 egg
• pepper
• salt
• grated bread or crackers

Method

1. 1

   Rub the ham thoroughly and soak in cold water for 24 hours.

2. 2

   Boil slowly until the bone is loose (20 minutes per pound).

3. 3

   Let cool in the boiler.

4. 4

   Remove skin and extra fat, then cover with a stiff batter of flour and water.

5. 5

   Bake slowly for 2 hours.

6. 6

   Remove batter, make incisions, sprinkle with brown sugar and black pepper.

7. 7

   Cover with dressing of grated bread, onion, butter, pepper, salt, and egg.

8. 8

   Brown in the oven.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The Blue grass cook book (1904) by Minnie C. Fox, page 30. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

BAKED HAM Never bake a ham under a year old. Rub the ham thoroughly and put to soak in cold water for 24 hours. Then cover with cold water in a boiler. When it begins to boil, set on back of stove and boil slowly till the bone is loose. (Twenty minutes to a pound is about the length of time required.) Then remove from stove and let stand in boiler till it is cool, over night or half a day. Put in a baking-pan and remove the skin and extra fat, being careful to keep the shape. Make a stiff bat- ter of flour and water and cover the top. Set it in the oven and bake slowly for 2 hours. Then remove batter and with a knife make slight inci- sions all over the ham and sprinkle first with brown sugar, about 1 tablespoonful, then sprinkle thor- oughly with black pepper. Make a dressing of 97 THE BLUE GRASS COOK BOOK grated bread or crackers, a little onion chopped fine, 1 tablespoon butter, pepper, salt, and mix with 1 egg

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