Ham Baked in Wine - Skinke I Vin

Submitted by LikeItLoveIt

• Ready In: 4hrs 20mins
• Ingredients: 11
• Serves: 20

ingredients

• 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

directions

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.