Grandma's Christmas Ham
Grandma's Christmas Ham is easy and delicious! If you like the ingredients in the name, you'll love the dish.
Ingredients
- 1 lb salt
- 10 lb leg of pork
- 1 quart bolied water (cooled)
- Pinch nutmeg
- Pinched mixed spice
- 1 teaspoon salt petre
- 2 tbsps brown sugar
Instructions
- Add sugar and salt petre to salt and mix thoroughly.
- Divide salt mixture into two parts.
- Mix half in boiled water
- Add pinch of spice and nutmeg to other half.
- Put away one part to be used after the fifth day and rub remaining half into pork
- Rub thoroughly into skin and into the flesh part (Use all of the salt)
- Using injector, inject meat with liquid, five times, two in the knickle part and three into the fleshy part.
- Wrap meat into two layers of greased paper and several layers of newspaper and tie securely.
- Tie well to secure the shape of the ham.
- After five days open and rub remaining salt
- Leave for five to six weeks to cure
- Smoke lightly