Baked Ham - American Recipe

Baked Ham

🌍 American, American Home Cooking Difficulty: ●○○○○

🍳 Equipment: Scales, Large covered kettle, Sharp knife, Roasting-pan

Traditional baked ham — straightforward 1920s home cooking.

Ingredients

• 1 whole ham—smoked
• 2 tablespoons brown sugar
• 3 tablespoons fine crumbs
• 12 cloves

Method

1. Weigh — the ham, and soak it overnight in cold water.
2. When — ready to cook it, wash the ham and trim off the hard skin near the end of the bone.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. Remove — the kettle from the fire, and let the ham cool in the water in which it has cooked.
6. Take — the ham from the kettle, and with a knife peel off the skin.
7. 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.

Tags: sugar · Source: The Plain Sailing Cook Book (1922)