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Fried Ham

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
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Fried Ham

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Melt a little bacon fat or dripping in a frying pan.

  2. Add the ham and fry gently until cooked, turning it six to eight times to prevent it from becoming hard.

  3. Once done, lift the ham onto a hot dish.

  4. Add a little more fat to the frying pan.

  5. Break the eggs into a cup and slip them into the hot fat, frying gently until set.

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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