Okay, before we start preparing Christmas lunch, a Morris tradition........ a nip of Irish Whiskey before anything is done, and another whenever needed until the meal is served.......
The Menu
The pork was easy, oil up, salt and roast on the med/hot BBQ (lid on) one and a half hours. You need to be very hot for the first 20 minutes to start that crackle up then back to medium for the remaining time until clear juice runs from a skewer pushed deep into the loin...... ...
The ham was delectable.... Double Smoked from the best butcher on the Downs (Downs Prime) as was the turkey and the pork, as well as the pork ribs and the rib fillet we had for the BBQ before xmas.
Glazed Ham.......
Shave all the skin and most of the fat off and score a centimetre deep in large diagonal squares.
Next make the glaze..
... The juice from a tin of pineapple slices
... 1 cup honey
... half a cup of brown sugar
... small bottle of seeded mustard
... squirt of hot english mustard / or a teaspoon of mustard powder
... teaspoon of crushed garlic
put into a saucepan and reduce by 30-40%.
Low oven -- 120* for two and a half hours basted every 30 minutes. At two hours pin the pineapple slices on and increase the heat to 180* basting twice in the last half hour. Pin the cherries on last before serving. Carve at the table.
The glaze before reduction
You can always add to the oven while you are cooking, just extend your times.
The final product
The next delicacy was the Maple syrup sweet potatoes.
peel and cut the sweet potatoes ... mix a half cup maple syrup, half a cup of brown sugar and half a cup of butter. Heat this syrup mix until the butter keys and pour over the sweet potatoes in a tray cover them all and roast in a moderate oven until soft. The syrup will boil up and self baste the potatoes.
There are no photos of the potatoes finished, they went straight to the table and were never seen again............................
Slicing the Turkey and getting the ham (below) ready for the table. My son Josh and his lovely wife Emma, helping out.
We had 17 people for lunch, a little pork left, half the full leg of ham left, NO turkey, No sweet potatoes and very little else. It was a wonderful family Christmas .............
See you next year.
all that looks so good...................
ReplyDeleteBravo! Hope you saved enough ham to last the five days of the Test. One point - apart from the (presumably) Old Bushmill quaffed at the commencement there seems to be a distinct lack of alcoholic beverages in the actual recipe....is this by design?
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