Can anyone help me find a ham recipe by Anthony Worrall Thompson?

[gossifairyonthexmastree]

Help all you foodies!
Last year i copied down a recipe from I thought 'Food and Drink' for a ham for xmas by A.Worrall Thompson, it was cooked in cider and oranges stuffed with cloves and then roasted with bourbon I think and it was amazing!
Cannot find the recipe anywhere, anyone know it of can help me find it, please...........2

oooh i did that last year it was lovely ,,give me a minute .......

almostachristmasangel, if you have it you will be my own personal domestic goddess.....we're off to my folks and we've told them all about this ham we're gonna cook them!

is this it

IPreparation and cooking: Depending on size

Made in advance : Up to 48 hours

Freezing : Yes

Serves : Depends on size boiling ham

½ pt (300ml) cider vinegar
1 pt (600ml) dark beer
2 oranges, studded with 2 cloves
2 bay leaves
2 apples, cut in two
2 onions
2 carrots
2 sticks celery
2 sprigs thyme
1 cinnamon stick
few cloves

1. Place ham in large saucepan and add enough water to cover. Add all the ingredients except the cloves to the pan and bring to the boil. Simmer gently for 15 minutes per lb.

2. Allow ham to cool in cooking liquid. Cut off all the rind, score the fat in a diamond pattern and insert a clove in the cross point of each diamond.

Ham Glaze

225g (½ lb) soft brown sugar
50g (2oz) polenta
1 tablespoon dry mustard
1 tablespoon black pepper
3 tablespoon bourbon
(¾ pint) apple juice or cider
225g (½ lb) dried, stoned apricots
150 ml (¼ pint) maderia or marsala

1. In a bowl mix together the brown sugar, cornmeal, mustard and pepper. Moisten the mixture with the bourbon. Spread the mixture over the ham.

2. Place the ham in a baking tray and pour in the apple juice or cider. Bake in a hot oven for about 15 minutes per lb, basting frequently.

3. Meanwhile combine the apricots and Maderia/Marsala, bring to the boil, cover and leave to infuse.

4. 30 minutes before the end of cooking add the apricots to the roasting pan continue to bake and baste the ham.

5. Serve, sliced with the apricots and pan juices or parsley sauce.

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id like to find wazza in my xmas stocking!!

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YIPPEE, thankyou so much, yumyumyumyum

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pmsl! i forgot about this now i need to hgo shopping .look out sainsburys!!

he's lovely isn't he, i have a thing about voices, and i luuuurve his voice

he just looks all cuddly and warm to snuggle up to on a cold night AND he has a nice house AND he cooks

i wonder if he can dance too.....

dh said he would buy me one of those meet wazz days [loadsa people watch him cooking] i said no! either A.couldnt handle it would end up pulling him onto the worksurface ,,or B ,think oh your not what i expected bet he can dance!! ...........did you see him strip last year on children in need!!

pmsl!!

noooooooo, i would've loved that

i had a bf once who looked and sounded like him, took to calling him 'anthony', needless to say it didn't last long.......
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ooh the other week i was watching him and his mis og of a wife said ..do you have to make a mess of the whole kitchen when you cook!! [mind you i say that to my dh when he coooks but to say that to wazza !!

WHY?? did you wear him out!!

hey you and i go and sit there giggling we would get chucked out !

WHOM ARE YOU WHEN NOT IN THE XMAS NAME? oops sorry cap lock on

gossifer - more of a lurker than anything else, have a ds 10months

hi ..im normaly almostanangel have 3 dds aged 16/14/and 8 [and no way do i look old enough]

hello aaa, i'm sure you look young enough to be wozzas' daughter!!!!

lol wouldnt want to be his daughter like to be his mums daughter in law ! lol

what have you got done today ...in between the school run [well walk as its up hill] i have cleaned the bathroom made the beds done loads of washing your recipe forgot to go to dds carol service forgot to post xmas cards argggggggghh

well. ds too ill to go to nursery, so didn't go to my bosses house this morning to wrap pressies for all my staff
cuddled ds on sofa this am and didn't do any of the housework/pressie wrapping/cooking needed, but did sweep one floor! and a lovely lady found a recipe for me! (so i do feel smug, this stopped me sleeping last night worrying how to cook the ham i've ordered!)
dp came home at 1.30pm and i'm now at work until 8pm