What to do with a leg of pork?

[TheNightIsDark]

It was on offer in morrisons marked down to £2 the other day so I stuck it in the freezer.
Plan is its our New Year's Eve dinner as I'm usually too tight to buy pork!

What shall I serve it with? How do I cook it? How do I get crackling?

Anything that's not chicken quite frankly scares me!

Anyone? Please help with my pork dilemma (snort)

The best way to get crackling is:

Defrost pork thoroughly and dry the skin
Make deep cuts through the fat
Dry the skin and fat again
Rub salt into the fat (ordinary table salt will do but salt flakes are better - it takes on a different taste)
Rub with olive oil - just a little

Leave it in the fridge for as long as you can 24 hours if possible

When cooking, put water in the bottom of the tray to just below the fat. Try not to get the fat wet and make sure that the level is consistent throughout cooking.

Turn the oven up full whack and cook for 30 mins, then turn it down to about 160 and cook for at least 4 hours (longer if you can, making sure that the water level is maintained)

Got this recipe from my sis's ex mil to be - sis says it's the only useful thing to ever come out of that relationship!

Oh - most importantly, do not cover it!

Good luck!

Fnar fnar

I would serve it with apple sauce - peel, core and dice a couple of Bradley apples, and stew with a little water until they start to break down, the. Sweeten to taste. I add a bit of cinnamon, ground ginger and mixed spice to make a spiced apple sauce - that goes well with pork.

Bradley apples? That should be Bramley - I am not sure why the iPad autocorrected it to Bradley.

Oh yes, especially the cinnamon, ginger and all spice with apples

Just realised that it is in fact nye tomorrow - if you defrost it overnight then you'll have time to salt in the morning and then slow roast

Thank you both

No problem! Good luck and let us know how it goes!

Never mind letting us know how it goes - what time does she want us to arrive for dinner!!

If you can cope with 4 hyper under 6's then you're more than welcome for dinner whilst I slink off to the pub

I would be fine with four hyper under-sixes. If I remember right, the secret is to fill them with sugar and e-numbers, give them cola to drink, and tell them their mum has said they can have a puppy each.

That's right, isn't it?

That world be it. At least that seems to be how my stepdad deals with them!

Would not world