Baked Ham Cooked in Cider

Ingredients

• a ham
• one pint of cider
• half a cupful of brown sugar

Method

1. 1

   Soak a ham overnight in cold water.

2. 2

   The next morning, trim it and put it over the fire in enough cold water to cover it, with one pint of cider and half a cupful of brown sugar.

3. 3

   Cover the kettle and boil slowly for four hours or until the skin peels off easily.

4. 4

   Remove the skin, lay the ham in a dripping-pan, pour in a pint of cider, sprinkle with brown sugar, and bake in a moderate oven for one hour, basting every fifteen minutes with the cider in the pan.

5. 5

   Serve hot or cold with the sauce from the pan.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Miss Corson's practical American cookery and household management (1885) by Juliet Corson, page 182. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

a ham over night in sufficient cold water to entirely cover it ; the next morning trim it neatly, put it over the fire in enough cold water to cover it, with one pint of cider and half a cupful of brown sugar

Cook this with the app: pantry check, scaling, and the assistant.