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Roast Ham

A ham roasted until fully cooked, then skin removed, bone trimmed, and decorated with a paper frill.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Roast Ham

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cook the ham until fully done.

  2. Remove the skin from the ham.

  3. Trim the end of the bone.

Finish

  1. Decorate the bone with a paper frill.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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What each ingredient does

Ham
Is the main protein; cooking it fully makes it safe and tender to carve.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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