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Pried Ham

A quick pan‑fried ham slice cooked in drippings.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 2 ingredients
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Pried Ham

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Heat the drippings in a frying pan.

  2. Add the slices of ham and fry quickly for 8 to 10 minutes until brown and crisp.

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
Provides the meat that browns and crisps in the hot fat, developing savoury flavour at the surface.
Drippings
Fat that conducts heat to the ham and helps its surface brown and crisp.

“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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