Boiled Ham

Description

This recipe came from an estate sale. I obtained it when I purchased the family collection from the Morgan Estate in Austin, Texas in 1982.

• Contributed by Catsrecipes Y-Group

Ingredients

• 12 pound ham
• 2 tablespoons powdered crackers
• 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
• 2 tablespoons brown sugar
• whole cloves

Directions

1. Soak ham for 12 hours then cook slowly in water for 5 hours.
2. Cool in ham's own liquid.
3. Remove outside skin.
4. Make crisscross gashes in top of ham then sprinkle cracker dust and brown sugar on top.
5. Sprinkle with pepper and stick whole cloves into ham then place in roasting pan and bake at 350 for 1 hour.