So this is what she had down.
11/2 cups salt ( the course curing or canning kind from the mill)
1 tbsp red pepper flakes ( keeps the bugs away)
1 tbsp black pepper
2 tbsp white and brown sugar.
Ok so she uses brown paper. She puts a little of this mixture down and lays the ham skin side down. Then she rubs this mixture in all over, making sure to shove it in real good around the bone. She then tight wraps it in the brown paper and ties it tight. She said to make sure we loop it around the bone several times. Then put it in a pillow case and let it lay flat for a couple days in a cool place. She always used meat bags that she had sewn but she said a cotton pillow case will work. So after its sat for a couple days and the pillow case is feeling a bit damp then you hang it up somewhere high and cool for about 3 months. Her friends can never wait and always cut into it early but she says they don't get a good cure because they do that.
Also she said not to wait till February because those hams don't keep and many times will "walk away from you". Something her mother told her that she always followed.
Her moms recipe is similar except there is no red pepper flakes. She said her moms were always really good also but she really felt the red pepper was better.
Ok so side story to go with this:
When she first married her uncle had some sows that were to have piglets but he wanted to slaughter them after. So he told the 2 girls who had recently been married they could each have piglets. So the other gal got the first batch and it was 7 piglets but they didn't care for them right and they all died. She got the next batch but it was a small litter of 4 but she brought them inside and kept them in their 2 room house in the corner. She said she took care of them the whole winter and when they got big enough they went and stayed out in the meat house till it was time to let them outside. She raised up all 4 and sold them all for $80. She said that was her first venture. She told herself if she managed to sell them she would set aside enough to buy matching paper for both rooms ( the paper that is still on the walls).
You can use a salt/sugar mixture as well.
