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Sweet Spiced Gammon
- Serves
15-20
- Difficulty
Medium
Published 1978
It is traditional to have a ham at Christmas and the way to ensure that it is full of flavour and character is to prepare and cook it yourself. In this recipe I bake the ham in the old fashioned way, encased in a flour and water paste. I think it tastes better like this but you can cook it wrapped in foil if you prefer.
Ingredients
- approximately
11 lb 4.95 kg 3 tablespoons 3 x
Method
Soak the gammon in a large sink of cold water, if possible, overnight, changing the water once or twice. Take it out and pat it dry. In a bowl, put the black treacle and the dark brown sugar. Grind the black peppercorns, the allspice and the cloves in a coffee grinder or with a pestle and motar. Mix them into the black treacle and sugar. Roughly crush the juniper berries and press them into any
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