Old Virginia Smithfield Ham Recipe

Ingredients

• Soak ham twenty-four hours in plenty of water
• one-half cup black molasses
• one-half pound brown sugar
• handful of spice
• Put into fresh water
• the same amount of molasses
• brown sugar
• few cloves
• Let boil slowly for hours (at least 42 hour to the pound)
• Allow ham to remain in this water until cold

Method

1. 1

   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.

2. 2

   Let boil slowly for hours (at least 42 hour to the pound).

3. 3

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

4. 4

   Then pull off the skin and put in baking pan, taking cloves out of water and sticking them into the ham.

5. 5

   Put in just a little brown sugar, molasses, and water.

6. 6

   Bake about three-quarters of an hour basting all the while.

As published

This recipe was extracted from Quaker recipes (1954) by High Point Friends Meeting. Woman's Auxiliary, page 40. 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 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 slowly for hours (at least 42 hour to the pound). Allow ham to remain in this water until cold

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