Old Maryland Baked Ham

Ingredients

• a ham
• Soak a ham in cold water for 2 days and 2 nights
• a cup of sherry wine
• bristling all over with cloves
• sprinkle with black pepper
• bread crumbs
• brown sugar

Method

1. 1

   Soak the ham, wash it, and place it skin down in a ham boiler with cold water.

2. 2

   Boil gently, replenishing with hot water.

3. 3

   When done, remove the skin, stick with cloves, sprinkle with pepper, bread crumbs, and brown sugar.

4. 4

   Pour sherry over it and bake until browned.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Colonial recipes, from old Virginia and Maryland manors (1907) by Maude A. Bomberger, page 22. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

bristling all over with cloves." OLD MARYLAND BAKED HAM {Weldon) Soak a ham in cold water for 2 clays and 2 nights, changing the water in that time four times. Wash it thoroughly in tepid water. Place it skin down in the ham boiler, which must be full of cold water:" Do not boil too fast, and as the water boils down replenish with hot water. When the ham is done it will turn of its ozvn accord skin up in the boiler. While the ham is hot remove the skin carefully, then place the ham in a large Wei don 93 pan. Stick the ham full of cloves, sprinkle with black pepper, bread crumbs, and brown sugar. Pour over it a cup of sherry wine

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