Gammon joint for dinner

[chloejessmeg]

Right. We have a gammon joint for dinner and I have some questions.

• the Date is 4th Jan - will it still be ok to have today. The fridge has been extra cold and can cook it well?

• We usually do it in the slow cooker but want to do it in the oven, with coating of mustard. Anybody know how I do this? Do I just take out pack, put mustard on and stick in the oven?

Thanks

it will be fine to cook today. not sure on how you do it with the mustard though.

I boil first to get rid of excess salt then roast and then put honey and cloves onto the fat (scored into diamond).

i have a gammon joint in fridge and it sys to boil for 2 and half hours, then transfer to over for 2 and half hours!

the honey is for the last half hour, sorry. Maybe same with the mustard?

how long do you boil for?

Also heard you can boil in coke?

fairies, how big is the bloody gammon in your fridge. Are you sure it is not boil OR roast?

yes the coke one is a nigella i think. should be a receipe on line for it somewhere.

found my coke one

2 litres of coke
2kg mild cure gammmon
1 onion

gas mark 9 or 240 2 and half hours with lid on but not tight.

then glas

1 heaped tbs black teacle
2 teasopoons english mustard powder
2 tabs demerara sugar
last 10 mins of cooking tim.e

glaze sorry

SO the coke has to go in the oven not hob? I don;t think I have anything that willbe suitable to do that in the oven. Can I just do it in a sausepan on the hob?

It is on the hob now. It is only a 1kg joint, and I just noticed it is actually a bacon joint not gammon so I hope this is ok?

Have put in coke but it doesn't quite cover it, is this ok? We don't have a big enough saucepan as we have a tiny kitchen.

sorry. according to the recipe the coke goes on the boil, then it goes into the oven for the glaze. reckon it will be lovely done in the oven with the coke anyway. Infact, save me a slice

bacon joint would be ok i think. It is all pig.

Anybody know what you do with the coke afterwards? The Nigella instructions (I managed to find online) says DO NOT THROW AWAY but doesn't tell you what to do with it?

They tell yoou not to throw it away as there is a recipe that she uses it for.

Soemthing like black coke soup or black bean soup/.

Has been on here but not got good reviews.

It was lovely anyway! I put a bit too much mustard on the outside which is a shame but it was still yummy!