Boiled Ham
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare
Scrape and wash the ham clean.
Place the ham in a kettle and cover it with cold water.
Cook
Simmer the ham for 5 to 6 hours, ensuring it does not boil.
Once cooked, remove the ham from the kettle and let it cool without skinning it to retain the juices.
Serve
Slice and broil the cold boiled ham before serving.
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.
Explore the science
What each ingredient does
- Ham
- Is the main ingredient, providing the meat that is simmered, cooled, sliced and broiled.
- Cold water
- Covers the ham in the kettle so it cooks gently and evenly in liquid.
The step that matters
Simmer without boiling. Keeping the water just below a boil cooks the ham gently over hours. A hard boil toughens the meat and can make it dry and stringy.
“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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