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

when i say i'm at work, i'm obviously not getting much work done........

lol hope you slept well [now equipped with your recipe!!] have a good day am off to push mum around the shops[not as bad as it sounds shes in a wheel chair]then drop her off and back to finish washing etc have a good day ,,,,,,,

hp[e ds feels better

ooh thanks aaa, hope the shops weren't too manic? why is your mum in a wheelchair? (hope you don't mind me asking)
well ds seems a bit better, no temp, hope it carries on i have so much to do!
have resorted to buying theatre tickets online for xmas pressies as planned shopping trips have messed up due to the little one!

(but i get to go too, so not that bad, he he!)

im backkkkkkkkkkkkk!! mum is in her 80s she had me at 47!! she has loads of different health problems both hips replaced etc [useful for carrying shopping though] hows your ds? was coming back to do loads of house work but im knackered! so am having cuppa and then going to get busy! great idea for the tickets where did you get them for? when you cooking your ham? i told ds and he said ooh i remember that! yummy!

what does your ds think of the xmas tree lights?

wow to your mum! that's so great! so how was the shopping? crazy? did you come home with loadsa things you didn't go out for

are all your dds' really girly or are they all completely different? what's santa bringing them?

ds hasn't really registered the xmas lights, he's more of the let me put any little bit of anything in my mouth constantly!! likes the bits of silver that have fallen off the tinsel though!

but he just had some tea, first food since saturday, so must be on the mend, and no temp, i do hope he's better for xmas

will do the ham on xmas eve, we're driving down to wales to my parents on friday, haven't been home for xmas for 7 years, so my mum's over the moon! sis is going too with her dp and dd so should be good; what are your doing?

have bought my mum some tickets to go and see some jazz on a day she's up in london anyway, so a nice surprise!
have got my sis some tickets for 'a fine balance' a play that as a book was shortlisted for the booker prize, so we'll see on that one, looks interesting though, i think it might become a tradition for us

we're in london as you've probably guessed, where are you?

hi ,brought dh a chicken that clucks the birdie song and gets faster and faster so you thottle it and it coughs and chokes its eyes pop out and its legs kick!! not very PC but soooooooo funny ..its his joke gift..im near colchester.where in london are you?..glad ds has had something to eat ..do you know i still find it difficult to eat with a knife and fork form years of spoon feeding the girls while eating my dinner ..so i would cut up my food and eat it with the fork lol.........we are having mum for christmas [would prefer turkey!] and my 16 year olds boy friend !! arghhhhh

dd 1 isnt girlie at all wants to be a mechanic!
dd2 is just so sweet and caring a bit too much [like her mum] and dd 3 is very girlie so yes they are very different.. main prezzies are,,,dd1 yet another mobile phone! dd2 pink nintendo with puppie game and dd3 bratz bits

i always find myself eating anything he doesn't and then onto a full meal later, gotta watch that or i'll be putting on the lbs!
at the thought of a dd having a boyfriend round for xmas dinner, a long way off but i hadn't even thought about stuff like that

we're in stoke newington, near angel

love the sound of the joke pressie by the way, that's what xmas is all about

you know you get old ladies cooing at your ds saying ,,enjoy him they grow up to fast "they Do!"..........they really do.i was 21 when i had dd1 .now shes taller than me! not difficult though so what have you got planned today? ive already made my bed and cleaned the bathroom [again]..off in a o to finish the washing and hoover as friend is coming at ten,,then need to make some sausage rolls/mince pies and wrap more prezzies...post more cards ..tomorrow getting my roots done ..may even get a pink streak! last min shopping then christmas eve ...take dds to the zoo 8 year old will get prezzie from santa great grotto loads of anamatronics..in between trying to watch some xmasy films with dds!! puff puff!

ooh if you go out pop into woolworths and buy "merry christmas children everywhere" its on a stand and its £3.99 it is soooooooooooooooooooo funny,,

its a cd by the way!

gosh, your full of energy first thing in the mornin!
a pink streak you go girl!!
do you wrap pressies as you go along? we'll do them with a bottle of something nice on xmas eve i think, not time before and cannot do when ds awake, he'd eat the paper!!!
we've been to the post sorting office to pick up parcels from santa (all seem to be for ds!)
then we went to the local hospice where my aunt works, had a look around and met lots of old ladies who coo'd over ds and said 'enjoy him, they grow up fast.....' & picked up more pressies
just to do some cleaning (which might or might not happen )
friend round for lunch
then need to make mince pies too!
also need to pick up the ham this afternoon and buy one more pressie
might even pop into woolies!
then we have friends coming round for mince pies and wine this evening
and then dp is off work until the 3rd, yippee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

lol at old ladies!..prezzies wrapped as go along but now ive forgotton what ive brought ! so i need to check that dds have got some extra little bits to open..friend been and gone her ds aged 18 months thought that my antique hand carved bowl and scoop which we have loadsa walnuts etc in would be a great toy!! so shovelled nuts every where pmsl then he tried to sit in it!! oh well..rude question how old are you?.............dont normally wrap as go along normally end up xmas eve 11pm wrapping drinking ! and getting less and less neat as i go along! i love well wrapped prezzies ..you know ribbons bits of holly etc curly bows ,,but 11 on xmas eve its like slap the cellotape on hope it covers the main bits of the gift ...

oh and as for pink steak i meant one that hangs down the side not accross the top of my head like a runway!

streak!! not steak!! i like my steak creamated!

now pmsl @thought of under cooked steak hanging down the side of my face ..oh dear im easily pleased!! ok off to do some more work............sigh..

you have made me laugh!
gonna have a smile on my face for the rest of the day - image of unknown woman with very well done steak hanging from her fringe

i thought all boats masqueraded as antique bowls????
i'm 33
we just picked up the ham and i'm not sure how i got it home, should have gone in the car!!!
have actually hoovered, which i'm pretty amazed at, and made pastry, i'm being very productive with the help of cbeebies
so if your in colchester have you heard of a village called bures?

pmsl...not been there i dont think been to sudbury which is close ish i think,,why?? im 38..well done with your marathon house work! am now picturing unknown woman with large ham joint in wheelbarrow speeding down high street with people jumping out of the way

(does sound a bit like me!)
we share a cottage with some friends just outside bures, going there for new years eve! yes, it is near sudbury
any top tips for places to visit in the future with ds?
you don't sound 38 and you have achieved soooooooo much already, 3 dds!!!!! i've got a lot of work to do catching up, you know when i was younger (before i really understood the reality) i awlways used to say i wanted 3 dds, new plan there then!

lol i will pop round on new years eve then with a few bottles and some nibbles ,,[i will be the one with the steak earings!..] the zoo [colchester] is great at christmas the grotto is so good loads of moving animals and a good prezzie from santa .

re the girls ,,as mum had me so late i never saw any of my grandparents and i wantwd my children to see theirs..which they have ..now they only have their grandmothers as both grandads died in the last 2 years.but they have met them ..after dd1 i thought how can you love another child when you love this one so much but you do ,,then nuber three well shes just a gem !! one minute i could thottle her the next you wanna hug her till she goes blue ..

gosh think i need a break from here my spelling is getting dire....have a great afternoon ,dont forget to double check all your lists and defrost anything that needs it,,,take care .....

i'm sorry about you're grandads

i know what you mean about grandparents, i've got only one nan left, luckily when ds was a couple of months old ds and i spent the day with my grampa, he died suddenly that week! at least my grampa met him, it meant a lot to me

your dds sound so lovely,

i've been thinking a lot about love recently, it's all so different when you have kids isn't it? mortality and health have a whole new meaning (this is the woman who was crying in the car on tuesday listening to the archers!)