Saturday 1 March 2014

Honey roast ham

Wet salt the ham (or buy one)

If it has been heavily salted soak in cool water for a few hours. We salted our own, not to strongly so sidn't bother soaking. You can tell how saltly it is by putting your tongue on it, if too salty soak, otherwise proceed.
Put the ham in a covered roasting dish and cook in a 180C oven for 20mins per 500g. 
Remove from the oven and then cut the skin off the ham with a sharp knife leaving as much fat on as possible. 
Slash through the fat left on the ham in a cross hatch pattern with a couple of cm between the cuts. A pattern of squares is created, Push a clove in to the each square. Mix 2 tsp of honey with 1 tsp of mustard (french, english, you chose) - this was sufficient for 1kg ham, for bigger ham use same proportions but more of each.
Increase oven temperature to 200C amd cook for a further 30 mins or until the fat is well browned. Bast half way through.
Serve with creamed parsnip and green veg. Or it will be delicious with anything really!




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