Gammon-how to cook?

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This will be my first time cooking a gammon joint. Please share your favourite recipes so that it turns out successful. Thanks

I just cook mine in cider (dry) and put in carrots, onion and potato and season.
Then just simmer until the gammon is cooked, I finish cooking here but you can also remove the skin, score the fat and put something sugary on top to glaze.

Once the gammon is cooked don't pour the liqui away, add some lentils to it and then when they're cooked blitz into a creamy soup.

I put mine in a big pot, cover it with water [or as near as I can], bring it to the boil and discard the water. Gets it warmed up a bit and takes out some of the salt.
Then I bake it in the oven as per timing on packaging, covered in foil and sitting in a puddle of cider. Top up cider once or twice. Apple juice if you prefer, but helps stop it drying out.
Last 15 minutes I whack the oven up to about 200/Gas 6.
Cut the skin off the joint, score the fat into diamond-criss-cross pattern, spread with mustard and cover with brown sugar, then stick a clove in each diamond. Bung back in oven to glaze.

Big pot on the stove, half fill with either apple juice, pineapple juice or a tropical fruit juice blend, top up with water to completely cover the joint, throw in a dozen or so peppercorns, a peeled garlic clove, a bayleaf, several juniper berries if you have them, and one small dried chilli.

Simmer for an hour with the lid on for a small piece, or an hour and a half for a bigger one. Let it cool slightly and then drain. You can then either put it straight in the oven or let it go cold and keep in the fridge for a day or two before roasting. I usually baste mine with either honey & wholegrain mustard or mango chutney, and give it a 1/2 cm bath of fruit juice to stop it drying out. 40 minutes in the oven on gas mark 5 is about right.

For the last 10 years or so we've used Nigella Lawson's cola ham recipe on Christmas Day, the leftovers we have with egg and chips on Boxing Day. It's a rock solid recipe.
https://www.nigella.com/recipes/ham-in-coca-cola

Mine goes in the slow cooker with dark brown sugar.

Put in a large pot and cover with cold water. Bring to the boil and then discard the water. This will draw the salt out of the gammon. Return gammon to the pot and cover with water again (you can use cider instead which gives a nice flavour). Bring to the boil and turn down to a simmer according to weight. Once cooked, leave the ham in the water/cider with a lid on for at least half an hour so it can rest and absorb the juices.

We do Nigella’s ham in coke too.

Top tip for amazing roast potatoes, parboil in the ham water. They soak up the fat and flavour, don’t need much extra fat and are gorgeous. I did hassleback ones last night and they were delicious.

I soak mine in cold water for at least 24 hours changing the water at least 3 times.
Then I boil for 25 mins per Kilo, then take off the skin, and score the fat. I then make a glaze from orange juice, honey and mustard. And then bake in oven for 30 minutes gas 6 and basting every 10 minutes. Any leftover glaze can be thicken with corn starch to use with cooked gammon.

Nigella Ham in Coke here too. It has to be full fat coke.