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Ham in Madeira

4 servings

Ingredients

• 1 piece Ham, cooked
• Jus (a little)
• 1.5 tablespoons Flour
• Butter (a little)
• Salt (a little)
• Lemon slices (a little)
• Vinegar (a little)
• Morels, truffles, or mushrooms (a little)
• 1 pinch Cayenne pepper
• 0.5 bottle Madeira
• Rice (a little)

Instructions

1. Cook the ham until tender, skin it, trim off the fat except for a narrow strip, slice it thinly, and arrange it overlapping in a deep dish with the fatty side facing up.
2. Pour the following sauce over it, ensuring it is quite hot: from a good jus, brown 1 to 2 tablespoons of flour in butter, deglaze with the jus, season with salt, lemon slices, and a little vinegar, and let it simmer.
3. Then add prepared morels, or truffles or mushrooms, a pinch of cayenne pepper, and ½ bottle of Madeira.
4. Arrange the ham with this sauce, surround it with a two-finger-width border of rice, and serve as hot as possible.

Modernized from a treasured 19th-century German cookbook.