Treatment for Boiled Ham
Ingredients
Directions
After cooking the ham, immerse it in cold water.
Keep the ham in the cold water until it is completely cold.
The colder the water, the better the result.
This will give the ham a beautiful red color and clear white fat.
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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