Milk-Baked Ham

This humble crockery is an illustration of the mode achromatic slaves cooked connected Southern plantations, according to Princess Pamela, a cook who ran a tiny psyche nutrient edifice connected East 10th Street successful Manhattan successful the 1960s.

Baking the nutrient successful beverage is thought to assistance support the ham tender and assistance gully retired immoderate of its salt.

Country ham typically is sold successful slices that are little than 1 inch thick, truthful inquire your butcher to chopped the 2-inch-thick slab that's needed here.

Adapted from "Princess Pamela's Soul Food Cookbook: From Chicken n' Ribs to Buttermilk Biscuits and Blackeyed Peas, A Mouth-Watering Treasury of Afro-American Recipes From Manhattan's Most Spirited Chef," by Princess Pamela (Signet, 1969).

Ingredients

Adapted from "Princess Pamela's Soul Food Cookbook: From Chicken n' Ribs to Buttermilk Biscuits and Blackeyed Peas, A Mouth-Watering Treasury of Afro-American Recipes From Manhattan's Most Spirited Chef," by Princess Pamela (Signet, 1969).

Tested by Bonnie S. Benwick.