Old Virginia Smithfield Ham Recipe

Ingredients

• ham
• plenty of water
• one-half cup black molasses
• one-half pound brown sugar
• handful of all spice
• few cloves
• a little brown sugar
• water

Method

1. 1

   Soak ham for 24 hours in water with molasses, brown sugar, and all spice.

2. 2

   Transfer to fresh water with the same ingredients and boil slowly for hours.

3. 3

   Allow ham to remain in this water until cold (about two hours).

4. 4

   Remove skin, place in baking pan, stick cloves in ham, add brown sugar, molasses, and water.

5. 5

   Bake for about 45 minutes, basting all the while.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Carolina cookery from Quaker kitchens (1924) by High Point Friends Meeting. Woman's Auxiliary, page 9. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

OLD VIRGINIA SMITHFIELD HAM RECIPE Soak ham twenty four hours in plenty of water to which has been added one-half cup black molasses, one-half pound brown sugar, handful of all spice. Take out of this water and put into fresh water to which has been added the same amount of molasses, brown sugar and few cloves. Let boil Ske. CAROLINA COOKERY FROM QUAKER KITCHENS slowly for hours. Allow ham to remain in this water until cold (about two hours). Then pull off skin and put in bak- ing pan, taking cloves out of water and sticking in the ham. Put in just a little brown sugar

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