How to make an Old Fashioned Boiled Ham

How to Make Old Fashioned Boiled Ham in an Everyday Kitchen
A great way to make any ham extra special.
In a large pot combine:
2 Cups brown sugar
1 teaspoon whole peppercorns
6 to 8 whole cloves
1 -2 quarts apple cider
2 - 3 bay leaves
Add the ham and enough water to cover.
Simmer for about 20 minutes per pound.
Remove the ham and place in a baking dish.
Combine ½ cup brown sugar and 2 tablespoons of dry mustard moistened with a bit of the ham liquor. Coat the ham with this paste. Add about 3 cups of the ham liquor to the bottom of the pan.
Bake at 375 F for 50 minutes, basting as needed
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And we love cooking for those who appreciate it.

[@Vivian1234]

this is great , i am looking on how to boil a ham. and found this helpful

[@EllenBennettHilltopStovetop]

Check out my other videos and let me know if there is anything else you want to learn about.

[@victoryfirst2878]

Thank you for letting me know the secrets of ham cooking. Thank Ellien for your video too. v

[@jillyjenkins3195]

I have been looking around and yours is the best video out there. I love how informative it is ,down to explaining why the bay leaves are important. Plus you show the finished dish which a lot do not do. Thank you so much 💓 and 🙏

[@EllenBennettHilltopStovetop]

Thanks for the feedback. I will be filming more episodes in the new year (I am in the process of moving right now) If there is anything else you would like to learn about, just add to the comments and I'll see what I can do. Always looking for ideas.

[@ianmetcalfe7389]

Nice. Some old school cooking ❤

[@EllenBennettHilltopStovetop]

Thanks

[@lukemccombs4278]

Excellent job Ellen

[@EllenBennettHilltopStovetop]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@conniejayen]

Thank you for this... from Florida, USA

[@EllenBennettHilltopStovetop]

Hope you enjoy it

[@helenegladney7929]

My grandma made ham this way and I have been trying to find how to make since she has passed away,thanks!

[@EllenBennettHilltopStovetop]

I hope it brings back many happy memories.

[@takiaseabrooks7218]

Yummy. I thank you for this recipe.

[@EllenBennettHilltopStovetop]

You are very welcome

[@tjb189215]

I can just tell this lady knows how to cook

[@EllenBennettHilltopStovetop]

This ham is a family favourite.

[@carmeltamiloeni7795]

Thank you for this recipe. I plan on preparing ham for my family this xmas using your recipe.

[@EllenBennettHilltopStovetop]

I hope you enjoy it. We are having ham like this for our boxing day.

[@georgesitgraves8474]

I like to see this kind of stuff.

[@carolynpreissinger6491]

Enjoyed your video. Great explanations. I usually boil my ham never with apple cider vinegar. Trying it now

[@EllenBennettHilltopStovetop]

Not apple cider vinegar... real apple cider. The drinking kind. Big difference.

[@scottie1858]

Great video! Exactly what I was looking for. Your kitchen reminds me of home. Thank you!

[@EllenBennettHilltopStovetop]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@kuma9069]

Nice, Chef Ellen. Thank you! Real home-made family food. 🙏🌸👍👏👏👏

[@EllenBennettHilltopStovetop]

Glad you are enjoying the recipes

[@elizabethshaw734]

I am disabled so I have a million countertop appliances such as a Nesco roaster and a KitchenAid mixer and there are too many to remember I also have an oven. However, I know that my friends Canadian grandmother made boiled ham and I'm very interested to see how she may have done it she passed away when I was 10 and I saw her make everything which I still make today but I missed out on the boiled ham! :-)

[@thelolguy007]

Looks great

[@EllenBennettHilltopStovetop]

Thank you.

[@ianblewett3118]

Fabulous. Thank you . I shall try it!!

[@EllenBennettHilltopStovetop]

I hope you enjoy it. I am planning a ham casserole to use up the leftovers. That should be posted in a couple of weeks.

[@denisedaugherty7921]

Thank you my mom made it like this .I was trying to find the recipe

[@EllenBennettHilltopStovetop]

I hope it brings back lots of good memories.

[@pamelaroy8007]

God bless you dear - that was just great and done so well... thank u dear, looks delicious. Happy holidays and abundant blessings

[@EllenBennettHilltopStovetop]

Thank you. Happy holidays to you as well (we are having ham for Boxing day dinner)

[@bourbonandsmoke5146]

I'd love to see that soup you mentioned with the bone. Bone broth always makes the best soup

[@EllenBennettHilltopStovetop]

Yes. I'll wait for cool weather again before I make that.

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[@TheMobileHomestead]

Late to the Party ..even so Thanks so much for this video . When I was kid , growing up on the East Coast (65 years ago ) you just never found pre-cooked hams ... they were all raw and you typically par boiled then baked them like you did ... best moist ham ever ..wish you could still get raw "Green' Hams .

[@EllenBennettHilltopStovetop]

Thanks. Even using pre-cooked this gives it the old flavour. I cooked up one yesterday and have it all sliced and ready to go in the freezer for boxing day dinner. The bone and scrap meat went into the baked beans I made.

[@sherrywalls7752]

I always boil my ham. The spiral and others don't taste right to. I boil it in plain water. I make syrup and plain mustard but stick whole cloves in and over ham. Dress with pineapples and cherry. Bake in oven twice. Delicious

[@EllenBennettHilltopStovetop]

Cloves make such a difference with ham.

[@zachjohns4002]

Excellent video! New sub here. Very informative, and love how you do it in a "normal" kitchen. Thank you for this valuable knowledge.

[@EllenBennettHilltopStovetop]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@shedevilu]

This looks sooo good!!! I am going to try this for christmas

[@EllenBennettHilltopStovetop]

check out my other videos and let me know if there is anything else you would like to learn about. I am always looking for ideas.

[@shedevilu]

@@EllenBennettHilltopStovetop I do want to see your scallop potatoes recipe!

[@EllenBennettHilltopStovetop]

That will be one thing that I film in the new year once I have moved to my new kitchen. In the mean time - slice the potatoes thinly and boil them to be partly cooked. While they are boiling, caramelize your onions then layer potatoes, onions (chopped cooked bacon if you wish) salt, pepper, dots of butter (or cream cheese) and a bit of flour. Pour milk/cream over it and bake at 325. Don't bake it in too hot an oven or the milk will separate. Have a great Christmas.

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[@EllenBennettHilltopStovetop]

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[@CKSobie]

Do you have to put a glaze on it? Can you just slice it up after you boil it and eat it?

[@EllenBennettHilltopStovetop]

Yes you can skip the glass. That reduces the sweetness and the mustard.

[@CKSobie]

@Ellen Bennett thank you for answering... anything else that I need to know.. so boil it 15 minutes a pound, then I can serve it warm.. it is a semi boneless classic ham this is okay to boil?

[@EllenBennettHilltopStovetop]

@@CKSobie yes. That will be fine. Enjoy.

[@CKSobie]

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[@EllenBennettHilltopStovetop]

Enjoy. We will be having this for our own boxing day dinner. Good health to you in the new year.

[@carolynpreissinger6491]

😂😂😂 I thought that was a little strange but with the brown auger I figured it would counter balance. Mine turned out great but only used about a cup of white vinegar.

[@EllenBennettHilltopStovetop]

Trust me, it is better with cider😉

[@tntmebs123]

What do you do with the pot of delicious liquor? Seems like a waste not to use

[@EllenBennettHilltopStovetop]

If it doesn't taste too salty you could use it as a soup base, just take the fat off.

[@tntmebs123]

@@EllenBennettHilltopStovetop Thank you, the verdict is split. So many people say to throw it away. But yes, it probably would taste great with Soup.

[@chosenandblessed9040]

How long do we boil or simmer

[@EllenBennettHilltopStovetop]

About 2 hours for the size of ham I used.

[@brawyn777]

I have my ham boiling in the pot now,a little later on it will be in the oven with a glaze on it,this is the way my mom cooked it

[@EllenBennettHilltopStovetop]

Happy Easter

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[@elizabethshaw734]

My grandmother had a cookbook from the rose flower company! Her daughter her last child was 23 when she passed away and she threw it out along with everything else that my mother couldn't Salvage from the rubbish! I have got my grandmother's lamp that is circa 1940 and I always loved it as a child. Now I have no family alive any longer I am the last one and I am not an old woman. My mother was my last living family member and she passed away in August 3 days before my birthday. I am disabled so I have a caregiver and I have adopted her children as my grandchildren and I love them as much as if they were my grandchildren! My caregiver is from Africa and the children are just lovely. They also speak English better than her and can translate. They stay with me in the new home I purchased every weekend so we have Sunday lunch after church and she is going to try new foods because she's living on three foods from Africa! I got Kentucky Fried Chicken the other night for all of us because she likes chicken and she loves it she likes it better than where she used to go she says it's yummy! :-)

[@EllenBennettHilltopStovetop]

The recipe I used in this video is from the Five Roses Flour cookbook 1932. Five Roses flour is/was made by Lake of the Woods milling company and my grandmother worked in their offices. Are there any other old favourites you would like me to film? You could watch with your caregiver and it would help with her English as well as teaching her more North American cooking. The foreign exchange student that used to live with me watches my videos with her mother so they can practice their English together.

[@reneejohnson9256]

Enjoyed ur video+ ur presentation! I wondered if u boiled corn beef using the same technique? I've boiled a ham once in my life, but couldn't get the corn beef right! Too, too salty. So I gave up! Thanks for sharing ur recipe!!!

[@EllenBennettHilltopStovetop]

Thanks for the input. I was just talking to my sister recently about corned beef and that will be an upcoming episode. The technique would be similar but more pickling spices and less sweetness.

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Corned Beef Video Posted today. Thanks for the idea. kzbin.info/www/bejne/q4TOlGxpl9eVrpo

[@ErsatzMcGuffin]

As a kid my Mom used to have me stick cloves, like a thumb tack, into the outside of of our easter ham. She had a few ways to make it that were different. Can't be sure if she ever tried boiling to remove saltiness. She did use pineapple at times. She used glazes and such also. Personally, I am not convinced that boiling removes salt to the point of being considered 'low sodium' or any thing that resembles a healthy portion of salt. As far as I know there isn't any science that can say for certain how much salt is in a ham or can be removed. Call me untrusting but I don't believe what the label actually says at all times on our food. But it doesn't stop me from eating it once in a while. Growing up we would eat ham all week long. With eggs, as ham salad, pea soup made with the bone, carrots and squares of ham. Sometimes she made a ham hash that we ate with eggs.

[@EllenBennettHilltopStovetop]

Amazing what we ate as kids that we consider bad for us now. We just had baked beans with leftover ham this week.

[@danielrush7105]

Temp of over 325-350?

[@EllenBennettHilltopStovetop]

The original recipe said 375 to 400 F. I believe i only did 350. Modern stoves are more efficient

[@elizabethshaw734]

I ate my nanny's boiled ham but I never saw her make it.

[@EllenBennettHilltopStovetop]

Was it close to this? Maybe you will be able to share it with your family some day.

[@elizabethshaw734]

@@EllenBennettHilltopStovetop it was pretty much exactly like this except she used the pineapples and cherries on top once she put it in the oven.

[@OxyCleanForYourBrain]

I’ve been looking for a boiled ham recipe because I got a giant stockpot that can hold one but I absolutely cannot stand all that sugar on meat. It’s also terrible to combine sugar and protein - can lead to brown spot deposits in the epidermis

[@EllenBennettHilltopStovetop]

You could cook it the same way without the sugar. A very different flavour with more emphasis on the spices.

[@EllenBennettHilltopStovetop]

Do remember as well that this is a recipe from 1932 when nutritional styles were quite different.

[@michaelcale4801]

Fantastic ham but your background music is to loud for us who are hard of hearing

[@EllenBennettHilltopStovetop]

Glad you enjoyed the ham. We did fix the music volume on subsequent videos. Thanks

[@tolpsvh]

I want you to be my third grandma

[@EllenBennettHilltopStovetop]

Thank you, that is quite a compliment. I do try to share how my grandmothers cooked, and I also want to pass on those skills to future generations.

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[@gophervision]

Ham boiled Lhocally.

[@EllenBennettHilltopStovetop]

It works with any large ham

[@Billlupton]

Turn off the damn Musak

[@EllenBennettHilltopStovetop]

Thank you for your feedback. I have reviewed with my editor

[@ApartmentKing66]

Sure, if you turn off your damn rudeness.

[@SuperDarkrock]

Why the FOCK would you boil ham?

[@EllenBennettHilltopStovetop]

A simple "why would you boil ham" would get you an answer. As you can see it it a demonstration for "old fashioned " boiled ham. Ham is traditionally brined and smoked but not necessarily fully cooked like modern hams. Even with a cooked ham, boiling it reduces the saltiness and infuses all of the other spice flavors.

[@quicko2112]

John bell end, Boiled ham is a dish you cabbage , its like saying why would you fry fish.

[@elizabethshaw734]

What do you think when you buy ham for sandwiches in the deli most of them are? Boiled ham there is more than one way to cook a ham idiot!

[@crazyforcoffee5950]

When you have burnt a roast and disguise your home cooking with fast food

[@ApartmentKing66]

A fair question, but you've got no call being a douche about it.