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MrsWW · Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 2:26 pm Post subject: Xmas Ham 2007

Ours is in the oven cooking as I type. Will try to post some piccies.

Anyone else doing one?
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MrsWW · Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 3:59 pm Post subject:

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This was taken at about 9.30am today - before it went into the oven for a good few hours - it's still there now!

:smt111
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storm · Joined: 10 Feb 2007 Posts: 2530 Location: Hampshire

Mmmmm! I bet it'll be delicious. How are you cooking it? Plain? Honey roast?

MrsWW · Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 4:14 pm Post subject:

Plain at the moment then it'll be studded with cloves, smeared with a good layer of English Mustard and demerara sugar stuck on top of that - glazed in a nice hot oven.
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Lloyd · Joined: 29 Mar 2007 Posts: 3255 Location: bs36

I put a 15 pound ham from my last boar (from Debbie) to brine about 3 months ago, then smoked it on Hickory for two days and it's been hanging air curing for two months in the garage. I'm planning to slow roast overnight on Christmas day with cloves, mustard, demerera etc as Wubbles is.Will have to soak it overnight in fresh running water the night before to lower salinity and rehydrate it. :smt111

MrsWW · Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 5:54 pm Post subject:

Just taken the skin off, whacked the oven up and covered it in cloves, English Mustard and the sugar.

Another 30 - 45 minutes and it'll be out to cool on a wire rack - promise I'll take a piccie when the steam's died down.
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Lloyd · Joined: 29 Mar 2007 Posts: 3255 Location: bs36

Another 20 mins Wubbles then piccies required! :smt111

Lloyd · Joined: 29 Mar 2007 Posts: 3255 Location: bs36

Here's mine...still in it's stockings.......

MrsWW · Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 8:09 pm Post subject:

Not "tidied and dressed" for the table yet. Currently on a rack draining nicely. Then, room in the fridge . . . . . . .? I think not!
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Ratman · Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 8:15 pm Post subject:

That looks really good

Do you eat any of the skin you have taken off ??
I love a small piece with some nice sweet picallili
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MrsWW · Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 8:17 pm Post subject:

No skin for us - dog and garden birds get it.
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storm · Joined: 10 Feb 2007 Posts: 2530 Location: Hampshire

Wow - that looks superb Mrs WW.

lloyd, I bet yours will be delicious too :smt111

kaz · Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 8:42 pm Post subject:

Mmmm - I shall have to have a go at that glaze icon_razz.gif
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Lloyd · Joined: 29 Mar 2007 Posts: 3255 Location: bs36

I'm new to all this: Why do you remove the skin at the end, before finishing off?

storm · Joined: 10 Feb 2007 Posts: 2530 Location: Hampshire

That is when you score it into pretty diamond shapes, put in the decorative touches (such as cloves) and glaze it.