Name: Mutton Ham
Ingredients: 1 leg of wether-mutton (12-14 pounds); ½ pound coarse sea salt (formerly 'bay salt'); ½ pound common salt

Mutton Ham

Ingredients

1 leg of wether-mutton (12-14 pounds)
½ pound coarse sea salt (formerly 'bay salt')
½ pound common salt

Directions

Choose a fine fresh leg of wether-mutton, cut in a ham shape, and hang for two days.
In a stew-pan, combine ½ pound of coarse sea salt and ½ pound of common salt.

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.