Baked Ham, Housewife Style

Ingredients

• one pound and a half of flour
• half a bottle of Madeira or Marsala wine

Method

1. 1

   Put a ham that has been trimmed and soaked in a large oval pan with cold water; boil and simmer gently for an hour.

2. 2

   Let it cool, then drain, remove the rind and fat, and wrap the ham in a thick paste made from flour and water.

3. 3

   Roast before a moderate fire for three hours, basting with fat.

4. 4

   After roasting, introduce wine into a hole in the paste, seal it, and roast for another half hour.

5. 5

   Serve with Madeira sauce and vegetables.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 10 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Practical household cookery (1891) by E. Duret, page 121. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

BAKED HAH, HOUSEWIFE STTLE. Put a ham that has been only trimmed and soaked, as previously described, in a large oval pan with plenty of cold water; boil, and let it simmer very gently for an hour; take the pan with the ham in it, away from the fire to get cold. Meanwhile mix to rather a thick paste, one pound and a half of flour with plain water. When the ham is cold take it out of the pan ; drain it ; remove the whole rind and trim off the fat; then wrap up the ham closely with the paste; fold this with a buttered sheet of paper ; fasten it on the spit, and roast before a moderate fire for some three hours, taking care meanwhile, to often baste the paper with any sort of fat. Then take the spit away from the fire, remove the paper carefully from the paste, without breaking the latter ; cut a small round hole in the centre of the paste, into which introduce, little by little, half a bottle of Madeira or Marsala wine

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