Ham, to cure. No. 11.

The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New ... · Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady · 1840
Source
The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory;: In Which will Be Found a Large Collection of Original Receipts. 3rd ed.
Yield
16.0 pound ham
Status
success · extracted 12 days ago
Not a recipe
No
Ingredients (8)
for the pickle
for curing
for pigs' faces
for beef
for pigs' or sheep's tongues
Instructions (9)
  1. Mix one pound and a half of salt, one pound and a half of coarse sugar, and one ounce of saltpetre, in one quart of water.
  2. Set it on the fire, and keep stirring the liquor till it boils.
  3. Skim it.
  4. When boiled about five minutes take it off, and pour it boiling hot on the leg of pork, which, if not quite covered, must be turned every day.
  5. Let it remain in the pickle one month.
  6. Then hang it in the chimney for six weeks.
  7. When the ham is taken out of the pickle, the liquor may be boiled up again and poured boiling hot upon pigs’ faces.
  8. After that boil again, and pour it cold upon a piece of beef, which will be excellent.
  9. It will then serve cold for pigs’ or sheep’s tongues, which must be well washed and rubbed in a little of the liquor and left in the remainder.
Original Text
Ham, to cure. No. 11. Mix one pound and a half of salt, one pound and a half of coarse sugar, and one ounce of saltpetre, in one quart of water; set it on the fire, and keep stirring the liquor till it boils. Skim it. When boiled about five minutes take it off, and pour it boiling hot on the leg of pork, which, if not quite covered, must be turned every day. Let it remain in the pickle one month; then hang it in the chimney for six weeks. These proportions will cure a ham of sixteen pounds. When the ham is taken out of the pickle, the liquor may be boiled up again and poured boiling hot upon pigs’ faces. After that boil again, and pour it cold upon a piece of beef, which will be excellent. It will then serve cold for pigs’ or sheep’s tongues, which must be well washed and rubbed in a little of the liquor and left in the remainder.
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