Ham Pickle

The following recipe for pickling hams was kindly given in 1929 by Mr. George Hawkins, at that time owner and landlord of the Langston Arms, Kingham, Oxfordshire. Mrs. Hawkins says, however, that, although Mr. Hawkins always attends to the pickling himself most carefully, much of the excellence of their hams depends on the feeding, housing and care he gives to his pigs. When he has run short of hams and has had to buy from other people, the