Boiling a Ham

Ingredients

• A ten-pound ham
• let it soak 4 hours
• would require about 5 hours cooking

Method

1. 1

   Put the ham in a kettle, cover it with cold water and let it soak.

2. 2

   Wash it thoroughly, scrape and clean off the hard edges of the skin, put back in kettle, cover with cold water, let it simmer until meat is tender.

3. 3

   Remove from fire and let stand in water for an hour, then remove the outside skin.

4. 4

   Sprinkle with granulated sugar and cracker crumbs, a dash of paprika and insert whole cloves.

5. 5

   Put in a slow oven and bake for an hour.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Two hundred tested recipes (1920) by North Carolina. Literature and Library Extension Department Woman's Club of Oxford, page 8. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

BOILING A HAM Boiled ham to be at its best requires very slow cooking. Put the ham in a kettle, cover it. with cold water and let it soak 4 hours. Take it out, wash it thoroughly, scrape and clean off the hard edges of the skin, put back in kettle, cover with cold water, let it simmer until meat is tender when tried with a fork. A ten-pound ham would require about 5 hours cook- in

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