Virginia Baked Ham

Ingredients

• Wash the ham
• cover with plenty of water (cold)
• cook for three and one-half hours
• One cupful brown sugar
• three tablespoonfuls flour
• two teaspoonfuls cinnamon
• one teaspoonful nutmeg
• one scant teaspoonful ginger
• one teaspoonful allspice
• two-thirds of a cupful of vinegar

Method

1. 1

   Boil ham, let it stay in water overnight.

2. 2

   In the morning, remove skin, prepare a mixture of sugar, flour, and spices, and apply to ham.

3. 3

   Bake for one hour, basting every ten minutes with vinegar.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Durham cook book ... (1921) by Durham (N. C.) Trinity Methodist Church. Woman's Missionary Society, page 6. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

VIRGINIA BAKED HAM. Wash the ham and place in a boiler and cover with plenty of water (cold). Bring slowdy to a boil and then move to the simmering burner and cook for three and one-half hours. Let the ham stay in the Water overnight. In the morning lift out, j)lace in a baking pan and remove the skin and trim to shape. Let stand while preparing this mixture: One cupful broAvn sugar, three tablespoonfuls flour, tw^o teaspoonfuls cinnamon, one tea- spoonful nutmeg, one scant teaspoonful ginger and one teaspoonful allspice. Mix w^ell and put the mixture into the fat part of the ham. Place in moderate oven and bake one hour, basting every ten minutes with tAvo-thirds of a cupful of vinega

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