Spiced Ham
Salt the hams for two days; put them in a keg and for each ham add: 1/2 cup molasses. 1 tablespoonful spice. 1 tablespoonful black pepper. A pinch of saltpetre. Let them stand four days, turning each day, then hang them up.--Mrs. D. R.
Seventeen hundred recipes from the housewives of Old Virginia — Sally Lunn and beaten biscuit, brandy peaches and Brunswick stew — gathered in 1879 by Patrick Henry's granddaughter, with tributes from the First Lady down.
Salt the hams for two days; put them in a keg and for each ham add: 1/2 cup molasses. 1 tablespoonful spice. 1 tablespoonful black pepper. A pinch of saltpetre. Let them stand four days, turning each day, then hang them up.--Mrs. D. R.