Name: Ornamenting a Glazed Ham
Ingredients: ½ cup clarified lard; 2 tablespoons salad oil

Ornamenting a Glazed Ham

Ingredients

½ cup clarified lard
2 tablespoons salad oil

Directions

Melt the clarified lard in a cup in the oven.
Add salad oil to the melted lard to make it thinner when cold.
Roll a sheet of stiff note-paper into a cone.
Pour a little hot lard into the cone.
Regulate the pressure on the cone to allow the melted lard to drop out in a thin stream.
Practice designs on a black tea tray before decorating the ham.

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.