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Ham Cooked in Cider

From 365 dinner dishes (1903).

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A historical recipe

365 dinner dishes (1903).

United States

Known as an American recipe, with similar versions prepared across other nations.

From an old book: a historical recipe, not current advice. Its methods, additives and storage may be unsafe by today's standards.

Ingredients 1 ingredient

  1. a cup of brown sugar

Cook safely

Keep children and pets away from the hob and the oven, and keep oven gloves and a lid within reach.

  • Boiling water and steam. Turn pan handles inward, away from the edge of the hob. Lift lids away from you, and pour hot water away from your body: steam burns too.

Method

  1. Cover a ham with cold water and let it soak over night.
  2. In the morning trim it and put it in a kettle and cover with cold water;
  3. add 1 pt.
  4. of cider and ¥% a cup of brown sugar.
  5. Simmer for 4 hours, Take

Plating

Cookware for this recipe

  • Saucepan
  • Kettle
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Credit

From 365 dinner dishes (1903), printed page 163, digitised by the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/365dinnerdishesd00unse

What was changed: Read by machine from the book's scanned text into ingredients and method. The title's capitals were tidied; spelling and scanning errors are left as they are.