Ham?!

[MrsMcJnr]

Hello, does anyone know where I can get a 4.5KG ham? Local supermarkets seem no good

Also, anyone seen silver napkins or have good ideas for adult table pressies!

Thanks!!

Butcher?

Is that too obvious?

Or hunt down a big pig.

Butcher. Or wait if not needed now. There will be bigger joints in closer to Xmas

ham in coke ham in coke ham in coke. ham in coke ham in coke ham in coke!

it is my football chant in the run up to christmas.

Does that really work soph????

its lovely, there is a good Nigella recipe in "How to Eat"

its lovely, there is a good Nigella recipe in "How to Eat"

We had a ham yesterday for a thanksgiving dinner. We got our ham from \link{http://www.dukeshillham.co.uk/Dukeshill}. I got a whole cooked wiltshire ham - not cheap - think it cost £60-odd and that was with a discount because i ordered it at a fair.

But it was (and still is) absolutely delicious. Although it was cooked, I heated it in the over by putting about 3 cups of cider in the pan. After about 2 hours, I then glazed it with a mixture of demerrara sugar, honey, brandy and cide. And cooked for about another 30 mins

We had 8 people for dinner. We ate an enormous amount and we still have sooooooooo much left.

poop - messed up the link. here

Always cook Nigellas ham in cola on boxing day, is lush!

sophie it SOOOO works.

essentially it is ham boiled in coke (fullfat, proper coke please none of your own brand stuff) for a couple of hours. you can then stick some black molasses and sugar on the fat and do some fancy pants scoring and put cloves in the diamonds.

but frankly that is faff that has nothing to do with taste.

it is absolutely sensational. i have a ham connoisseur in our house and having had it last year he said yesterday 'can you get a really massive, big as you can ham this year please'.

it really really really is good.

obviously you need a good ham in the first place for it to be the height of what it can be. but i've made it with rubbish sainsburys gammon....and it was still nice (not as nice as the screechingly expensive organice one we had a christmas, but still).

x

agree with soph and spykid. ham in coke is truly delicious.

aitch, are you a namechange?

do i know you by another moniker?

dunno, sophable. i've been aitch71, theblairaitchproject, alfredaitchcock and a few other things.

Aitch, you have a very super name now, IMO.

why thankyou. i thought it up myself, with no help whatsoever from anyone whose name rhymes with mumfraybooshon.

You are exceptionally clever and witty.
Jolly well done.
Sorry for the hijack, but will be trying the ham in cola recipe this week.

it's delicious humph. just beware of keeping the cooking liquid to use as a soup base, as nigella suggests. it might be nice if used sparingly, but is disgustamundo if you use it in a oner.

Okey dokey, thanks for the tip.
LOL at "disgustamundo" - is this a well-known culinary term?

Dont' like the suggested crumb topping for it though. too sweet imo

Thanks ladies.

Good point SueW.

Sophable this one's going to be in mulled wine but I have done it before in coke and in cherry coke, yummy!

JoshandJamie - that sounds delicious! Thanks for the link. Will check it out.

Aitch - I've used the coke stock to make the red cabbage in (Nigella's idea not mine, it was nice!

What do you serve with ham?

We're going to have parsnip & leek mash, either roast potatoes or dauphinoise pots and carrots in an orange sauce.

I like the sound of carrots in an orange sauce, very nice idea. We did have ham last year but I cannot remember what I did with it.

With the thanksgiving ham we just had this weekend we had:

Ham - described below
Two cheese gratin using potatoes and sweet potatoes
Maple glazed carrots
Green beans with pecans
Braised red cabbage

Pudding was cranberry upside down cake

Yummy! could I have the recipe for the gratin? many thanks

No one seen silver napkins or have good ideas for adult table pressies?