Nigella Lawson's Ham in Cherry Coke - Please!!`

[GoldenSnitch]

This Christmas is going to be manic. I'm due to give birth by ELCS the week before (although judging by how painful my pelvis is today, she might be making an early appearance!!) and to help out, my Mum has offered to drive the 3 hours to our house to spend Christmas day with us and cook Christmas lunch for us so that I can just sit on the sofa and feed our new DD. She's bringing my youngests sister and brother too who live at home with her. There will be 5 of us for dinner plus my DS and new DD.

All I have to do is sort out the meat and put it on in the morning else it won't have enough time to cook.

The thing is, it's the first time ever that we will have done Christmas at our house and I want it to be special - and I have my heart set on making Nigella's Ham in Cherry Coke as part of dinner along with a chicken (no-one really likes Turkey) It'll make for great leftovers too for supper.

I don't have the recipe though.

I would buy the book (Feast) but it's been on my Christmas wishlist and I have a feeling SIL has bought it for me. By the time I get my hands on the book, it'll be Christmas Day and far too late to buy the ingredients!

I would borrow the book from the library but getting around is getting quite tough as my pelvis is very sore and the library is right next to the shopping center which makes parking next to impossible. DH works an hours drive away and doesn't have time to go before or after work for me.

I've looked online but I can only find the Ham in Coke recipe and it was the Cherry Coke one I really wanted to try.

I've asked a friend who has the book but he's lent the book to his ex wife and she's now not giving it back!

I asked my sister who has the book but she lives an hour and a half away and keeps forgetting to photocopy the recipe to post it to me.

I'm getting desperate!!

So I thought I would ask you guys. Does anyone have Nigella's Feast who wouldn't mind scanning or typing out the recipe for me? I really want to get the ingredients bought (and possible also a big pan!) before this baby appears!!

I know it's unlikely but I can't think what else to try...

TIA

i have done nigellas ham in normal coke?

is that the one

pretty sure its boil ham in the coke and think i might have added an onion [thinking back to last christmas]

There's one in normal coke and one in Cherry coke (and one in ginger ale too apparently) but it was the Cherry coke one I had my heart set on.

I can find the normal coke recipe online but the cherry coke one seems to be impossible to get

I have the book downstairs...give me a sec...

I cooked it last year and it went down as a massive success

is this real or am I living in some sort of strange dream...

goldensnitch do you wnat to serve ham hot or cold?

Surely the recipe's the same and you just substitute coke for cherry coke?

Found this online:

Ham in Coca Cola

2kg mild cure gammon
2 litres Coca Cola (the proper stuff, not diet) save 2 tablespoons
1 onion, peeled and halved
100g breadcrumbs
100g dark muscavado sugar
1 tablespoon mustard powder
2 tablespoons Dijon mustard

Put the ham and onion in appropriate size pan, add the coke (less the 2 tblsp) boil, then simmer for about 2 1/2 hours

Near end of this time, put oven on at gas 7/210 C

Keep the cooking liquid* but transfer ham to roasting dish

Remove skin, leaving thin layer of fat

Mix breadcrumbs, sugar and mustards slowly with the 2 spoonfuls of coke to form a thick paste.

Spread on ham and cook in the oven for 10 - 15 mins, or until crust is just set

*use remaining cooking liquid as a base for black bean soup

Ham in Cherry Cola

2kg mild cure gammon
6 cans cherry Coke
1 onion
16 whole cloves
3-4 tablespoons cherry jam
1 teaspoon pimenton dulce or smoked paprika
1/2 tea spoon red wine vinegar

Method as above* - then stud the ham with the cloves, put the jam, paprika and vinegar into a pan and bring to boil, stirring throughout. When thick and syrupy, pour over ham and bake for about 15 mins

*the remaining cooking liquid is too sweet for soup (says Nigella) but great for cooking red cabbage in

simple...boil ham in cherry coke with an onion cut up...then put in the oven with a glaze made of cherry jam...

can find you the recipie tomorrow if you want....dh is downstairs, we have had a row so am hiding upstairs

okay, have googled - here www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/grapevine/season-taste/nigellas-ham-recipes_11700.html

onion in half. unsmoked gammon. into cherry coke. bring to boil. simmer (look on pack for how long). take out of coke. take off most of the fat. coat the left over thin layer of fat in mixture of breadcrumbs and mustard and muscovado sugar into oven (high) for 15.

that's as well as i can remember it, you can't go far wrong really.

x-posted

procastingparent ..that is it..

Love her Ham in Coke and make it every Christmas, btw - never tried the Cherry Coke, though.

Am thinking of doing this myself for Boxing Day, so here goes:

Ingredients:
2.25-2.75kg boneless mild cure gammon
approx 6 cans cherry coke

For the glaze:
approx 16 whole cloves
3-4 tbsps cherry jam
1 tsp pimenton dulce or smoked paprika
half tsp red wine vinegar

Nigella's instructions:
Put the ham snugly into a large saucepan (you really need the tightest fit you can, so that you don't have to use lots of Coke to cover it later) and fill with cold water. Put the pan on the heat and bring to the boil, then drain the ham into a colander, wash the ham under the tap and rinse the saucepan before putting the ham back in. This will get rid of some of the saltiness. Or just soak overnight in cold water.

Add the cherry coke and the onion, halved, to the ham and if the liquid doesn't cover it then add some water. Put back on the heat and bring to the boil, then turn down to a simmer and partially cover the pan. Cook for approx 2-2.25 hours.

When you are ready to glaze the ham, preheat the oven to Gas Mark 8/230 degrees. Remove the ham from the liquid, reserving it for later, and sit the ham on a board. Strip off the rind and a little of the fat layer, it it's very thick, and cut a diamond pattern into the remaining fat with a knife in lines about 2cm apart. Stud each diamond with a clove.

Put the jam, pimenton/paprika and red wine vinegar into a saucepan and whisk together over a high heat, bringing it to the boil. Let the pan bubble away so that the glaze reduces to a syrupy consistency that will coat the fat on the ham.

Sit the ham in a roasting pan on a layer of foil, as the sugar in the glaze will burn in the oven as it drips off. Pour the glaze over the ham and then put it in the oven for about 15 mins, or until the glazed fat has caught and burnished. Take the ham out of the over and return it to the carving board to rest it before you carve it.

Sorry for any typos! I expect someone else has been typing this out much more quickly than me

Thanks pp, but why don't my italics work?

I think you have to put around every^ word you want italicised, not simply the sentence.

Ham in Cherry Coke

2.25-2.75kg boneless mild cure gammon
6 cans cherry coke
1 onion

Glaze:
16 whole cloves
3-4 tblsp cherry jam
1 teaspoon pimenton dulce or smoked paprika
1/2 tsp red wine vinegar

Method:

Put ham snug into large pan - get as tight a fit as possible
Fill with cold water
Bring to boil
Drain ham, rinse ham under tap and rinse saucepan

(or soak overnight)

Put ham back in pan
Add cherry coke and halved onion
If liquid doesn't cover ham add water
Bring to boil Partially cover pan and simmer for 2-21/4 hours

For the glaze:

preheat oven to 230C
Remove ham from liquid

(Reserve the liquid for later - add, 2tbsp red wine vinegar and use it to cook red cabbage for 40minutes; taste is amazing)

Strip off rind and a little of the fat if its very thivk
Cut a diamond pattern into the ham about 2cm apart
Stud each diamond with a clove

Put jam, pimenton dulce and red wine vinegar into a pan
Whisk together over a very high heat and bring to boil
Bubble away until syrup consistency

Put ham onto roasting pan over foil
Pour galze over the ham
Put in over for 15 min or until galze ans caught and burnished

Rest before carving

Thanks fatsatsuma

Thanks hulababy too

Yey! Now I can get everything in ready for the big day

I've done the normal coke and was planning on doing three for a buffet on the 12th, is this nicer?

It is def worth doing the red cabbage BTW - was delicious.

Can I make this Christmas eve and have it Christmas day? Could you reheat it?

How big does the pan have to be?

Could you do it in the slow cooker?

Advice gratefully recieved!

ewwwww

Think you should stick to hulababy's version - I see I missed out the onion from the list of ingredients...