Ham To Cure No 1 Recipe

Take a ham of young pork; sprinkle it with salt, and let it lie

twenty-four hours. Having wiped it very dry, rub it well with a pound of

coarse brown sugar, a pound of juniper berries, a quarter of a pound of

saltpetre, half a pint of bay salt, and three pints of common salt,

mixed together, and dried in an iron pot over the fire, stirring them

the whole time. After this, take it off the fire, when boiled, and let

it lie in an earthen glazed pan three weeks, but it must be often turned

in the time, and basted with the brine in which it lies. Then hang it up

till it has done dripping; and dry it in a chimney with deal saw-dust

and juniper berries.

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