Honey Cure for Ham

Recipes Ingredients:

1 Ham
-drugstore)
1 lb Rough salt
1 oz Pepper
1/2 oz Saltpeter (from the
1 lb Honey

Recipe Instructions:

You will need a salting pan. Rub the Ham all over with the salt, saltpeter, and pepper. Put it in a salting pan. Turn and rub it well with the mixture every day for 4 days. Then pour the honey over the Ham and rub it in. Rub the Ham with the Pickle/a> twice a week for a month before you hang it up to dry. Time: 1 month plus. From: "The Old World Kitchen - The Rich Tradition of European Peasant Cooking" by Elisabeth Luard, ISBN 0-553-05219-5 Posted by: Karin Brewer, Cooking Echo, 7/92