Pork ham baked in rye dough.

List of required products:

• Pork ham, maybe veal;
• Rye flour: two kilograms;
• Granulated sugar: a couple of tablespoons.

Additionally:

• Large and deep baking tray;
• Large sheet of white paper.

How to bake a ham?

1. If the ham has been salted, it must be soaked in ice water in advance, draining the water every hour and a half, four times.
2. Afterwards, remove the ham from the water and dry with napkins, scrape each side with a knife, wiping the blade with napkins.
3. Rub sugar on the side of the ham where there is no skin.
4. Wrap tightly in a sheet of paper.
5. Place in a bowl and set aside.
6. Sift the flour and pour into a deep bowl.
7. Make a depression in the center of the slide and pour three to four glasses of water into it.
8. Knead into a very thick dough.
9. Next, sprinkle the table a little with flour and lay out a lump of dough, divide it into two equal parts and roll out a flat cake from each part.
10. Grease a baking tray with water and place the first flatbread.
11. Wet your hands with water.
12. Use your fingers to spread it across the bottom of the baking sheet.
13. Place the ham wrapped in paper, greasy side up.
14. Cover the ham tightly with a second flatbread on top.
15. Pinch both flatbreads along the edges, in a circle.
16. Wet your hands with water again and smooth out the dough, pressing it tightly against the ham, making sure there are no cracks in the dough layer!

Preheat the oven to two hundred and fifty degrees, and place a baking sheet in the hot oven. Bake for three hours. During this time, the sacrum bone will easily move away from the meat. Remove the baking sheet and place it on the table on a hot rack. Allow the ham to cool, and only from the cooled one, using two knives, remove the crust of the dough. Remove the paper too.

Place the ham on a beautiful serving dish and garnish with slices of stewed vegetables, leaves and sprigs of herbs, and a mesh of mayonnaise. You can cut the ham into slices and serve it with a vegetable salad.

Tip: How to cook ham?

It is first soaked, the water is changed twice, every hour and a half. Then put it in a large saucepan and fill it with fresh cool water. Cook over high heat, skimming off the resulting foam each time and draining the broth every two hours. When the ham becomes soft and the bone comes away from the meat freely, it is ready! You can add seasoning and vegetables.
– In the case when the ham is fresh, lightly salted or from a young pig (calf), then when cooking, it must be immersed in boiling water. It will cook quickly and will not lose its juiciness.
– You can tell that the meat is ready by looking at the cartilaginous bone - it is easily separated from the fibers of the meat.