Florence White

To Pickle Hams

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

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By Florence White

Published 1932

  • About

Colonel Wilson’s ‘excellent’ receipt: Tendring Hall, Suffolk, 1857. Suffolk sweet-cured hams are famous.

Ingredients

  • A leg of pork
  • salt of prunella 1 oz.
  • saltpetre 1½

Method

  1. Rub the ham hard for an hour with the above ingredients well mixed.
  2. Let the ham remain in the pickle one month.
  3. Rub it as directed three times a Week during the month.
  4. Then smoke it for 3 weeks.