Ham and eggs

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Preparation info
  • To serve

    four

    • Difficulty

      Easy

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By Caroline Conran

Published 1978

  • About

Making fried ham and eggs is an extremely good and welcome way of using up a piece of cooked gammon or ham.

Ingredients

  • 4 thin slices cooked gammon or ham
  • 15 g (½ oz) butter

Method

Slice the gammon or ham rather thinly. Melt the butter in a large frying pan, put in the ham and break in the eggs. Cover the pan with a lid and let it cook over a medium heat until the eggs are just set.

If you want the ham crisp round the-edges, cook it in the butter first before breaking in the eggs and putting on the lid.

For tender ham and eggs, add a teaspoon of water to t