I know I read in the issues somewhere a recipe for cooking a fresh ham. I have looked over and over those wonderful issues and cannot seem to find it, HELP! I wanted to cook one for Thanksgiving. Thanks in advance. Lynda

-- Lynda Chevalier (lchev@execpc.com), November 21, 1999

Answers

if when you say fresh ham you're talking about a ham that hasn't been smoked or in any other way cured, we treat it the same as you would say a pork roast. a good cookbook will give you the best temp and how many min per pound to cook it for. we often take our fresh ham and cut them into slices them bake or fry or grill them as you would pork chops...good luck...ron

-- ron in n.y. (ronmister@hotmail.com), November 22, 1999.

Thats the way I do it too, just like a big old roast. I use lots of onins and I also like to stick the roast and put garlic cloves into it. Yum Yum....

-- Ruth Guida (n5rjm@arrl.net), November 22, 1999.

I know this answer is a little late for Thanksgiving but maybe it will help for Christmas. Wrap the ham in a "bowl" made from aluminum foil and cover it with a rubbing of honey and then a layer of brown sugar. After that, sprinkle some cloves over the top and then add about 1 tablespoon of lemon juice. Finish wrapping the ham completely with aluminum foil and either place it in the oven at about 250 degrees for as long as you can bear to leave it in there (at least 8 hours) or bury it in the coals of a small fire and cover it with dirt, building another small fire over the dirt and leaving it overnight. Be careful if you use the fire method to allow the coals you are surrounding the ham with to cool a little before burying them and don't make your second fire too big. Good Luck

-- Richard Blankenship (candi_and_rick@att.net), November 27, 1999.