Name: To Prepare Smoked and Salt Hams, Shoulders, and Bacon for Cooking
Ingredients: 3 pails of water; smoked or salt ham, shoulder, or bacon

To Prepare Smoked and Salt Hams, Shoulders, and Bacon for Cooking

Ingredients

3 pails of water
smoked or salt ham, shoulder, or bacon

Directions

Soak the meat in water for 20 to 50 hours, depending on size.
Trim the meat, removing any rusty parts.

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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To Prepare Smoked and Salt Hams, Shoulders, and Bacon for Cooking