Recipe For Cooking Boiled Ham

Let the ham soak several hours, or over night, after scraping and scrubbing thoroughly with a brush. To cook, cover with cold water, bring slowly to the boiling point, let boil a few moments, then skim and let simmer five hours or more. When tender set aside to partially cool in the liquid, then remove, draw off the skin, brush over with beaten yolk of egg diluted with milk, sprinkle with sugar and cracker crumbs mixed together, and set in the oven to brown. Cover the bone with a paper frill. Garnish the dish with parsley. Also serve cold, thinly sliced. Nasturtium leaves and blossoms make a most appropriate garnish for a platter of thin-sliced, cold-boiled ham.

Cold Boiled Ham, Sliced Thin

Garnish: Nasturtium leaves and blossoms.