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To Dress Mutton Hams

A method for dressing mutton hams by soaking in cold water and boiling.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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To Dress Mutton Hams

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Soak the ham in cold spring water for 5 to 6 hours, or 1 hour if it has been recently cured.

  2. Place the ham in a pot with cold water.

Cook and serve

  1. Boil gently for 2.5 hours.

  2. Serve cold.

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 ingredient, providing the meat and flavour that the dish is built around.

“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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