Baked Ham
From Observatory
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- Ingredients
- 1 whole ham—smoked
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 3 tablespoons fine crumbs
- 12 cloves
- Utensils
- Scales
- Large covered kettle
- Sharp knife
- Roasting-pan
- Directions
- Weigh the ham, and soak it overnight in cold water.
- When ready to cook it, wash the ham and trim off the hard skin near the end of the bone.
- Put the ham in a large kettle, cover it with cold water, put the kettle over the fire, and bring slowly to the boiling-point.
- Reduce the heat, cover the kettle, and let simmer gently until the ham is tender. This will require about thirty minutes of cooking for each pound.
- Remove the kettle from the fire, and let the ham cool in the water in which it has cooked.
- Take the ham from the kettle, and with a knife peel off the skin.
- Put the ham in a roasting-pan, sprinkle the sugar and crumbs over it, and press the cloves into its surface at intervals. Bake one hour in a slow oven.
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