Boiled Ham

Ingredients

• a ham weighing about eight or ten pounds
• one pint of vinegar
• two or three bay leaves
• a little bunch of thyme
• a little bunch of parsley
• a teaspoonful of powdered sugar
• grate bread-crust over it

Method

1. 1

   Soak the ham for 12-24 hours in cold water, then cover with boiling water.

2. 2

   Add vinegar, bay leaves, thyme, and parsley.

3. 3

   Boil slowly for 2.5 hours, skim, and remove excess fat.

4. 4

   Grate bread crust over the ham, sprinkle with sugar, and bake in the oven for 30 minutes until brown.

5. 5

   Serve cold.

As published

This recipe was extracted from The hearthstone; or, Life at home (1883) by Laura C. Holloway, page 281. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

a ham weighing about eight or ten pounds, soak it for twelve or twenty-four hours in cold water, then cover with boiling water ; add one pint of vinegar, two or three bay leaves, a little bunch of thyme and parsley. The dried and sifted will do, or even the seed of parsley may be used if the fresh cannot be procured. Boil very slowly two hours and a half; skim it ; remove all the fat except a layer about half an inch thick ; cut off with a sharp knife all the black-looking outside ; put the ham into your dripping- pan, fat side uppermost, grate bread-crust over it, and sprinkle a teaspoonful of powdered sugar

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