Ham Baked In Wine - Skinke I Vin

Total Time: 4 hrs 20 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 4 hrs 10 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 20
• 10 lbs smoked ham
• 2 small onions, chopped
• 1 leek, finely chopped
• 1 5/8 quarts red wine
• 1/2 lb mushroom, sliced
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 1/2 cup water
• salt
• pepper
• 2 tablespoons butter
• 2 tablespoons flour

Recipe

• 1 loosen the skin from the ham and simmer with the onions and the leek for 1 hour in a roasting pan with all but ½ cup of the wine.
• 2 remove ham from roaster.
• 3 cut away and discard tough outer skin.
• 4 brown mushrooms in butter.
• 5 cut a slash in the top of the ham sufficiently large to hold the mushroom mixture, water, salt and pepper.
• 6 skewer the opening to keep the filling in place.
• 7 make a sauce of the 2 tablespoons of butter, 2 tablespoon of flour and the liquid from the roaster.
• 8 stir over a low heat.
• 9 add the reserved ½ cup wine a little at a time and mix well.
• 10 pout over the ham in the roasting pan and bake until tender (about 25 minutes to the pound) in a preheated 375º oven.
• 11 baste at least every ½ hour with juices from the pan.