Name: Ragout of Ham
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: 2 lb (1 kg) piece of gammon; ¼ cup (60 g) brown sugar; ½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper; ¼ cup (30 g) flour; 2 tablespoons (30 g) butter; ⅝ cup (1.5 dl) red wine; 1 teaspoon castor sugar; ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon; Juice and zest of 1 large orange

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

English Provincial Cooking

By Elisabeth Ayrton

Published 1980

About

This is a delicious eighteenth-century recipe from Dr Johnson’s London.

Ingredients

2 lb (1 kg) piece of gammon
¼ cup (60

Europe
United Kingdom
Engalnd
Main course
Dinner
London

Method

Boil the gammon in water with the brown sugar and when it is cooked allow it to get cold in the liquid. It is often convenient to do this the day before.

Lift out the gammon and discard the liquor in which it cooked. Carve it into 12 rather thick slices and trim them of all fat and skin. Melt the butter in a saucepan, lay the gammon in it and turn the slices frequently over a low heat u

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