Baked Ham
Ingredients
- 1 10 or 12 pound ham
- 1 ½ pound brown sugar
- 1 pint sherry wine (cooking sherry)
- 1 cup vinegar (not too strong)
- 1 cup molasses
- cloves (whole)
Instructions
- Scrub and cleanse ham.
- Soak in cold water over night; in morning place in a large kettle and cover with cold water.
- Bring slowly to the boiling point and gradually add the molasses, allowing 18 minutes for each pound.
- When ham is done remove from stove and allow it to become cold in the water in which it was cooked.
- Now remove the ham from water; skin and stick cloves (about 1½ dozen) over the ham.
- Rub brown sugar into the ham.
- Put in roasting pan and pour over sherry and vinegar.
- Baste continually and allow it to warm through and brown nicely. This should take about ½ hour.
Notes
Serve with a garnish of glazed sweet potatoes. Caramel from ham is served in a gravy tureen. Remove all greases from same.
This is a dish fit for the greatest epicure.