Recipe: Honey Cure for Ham

Title: Honey Cure for Ham
Categories: Pork/ham, Londontowne
Yield: 6 servings

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

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 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