Ham in Coca Cola

Name: Ham in Coca Cola
Cook time: 3 h
Total time: 3 h
Yield: 4 serving(s)
Ingredients: 2 kg mild-cure ham; 1 onion, peeled and cut in half; 1 (2 liter) bottle Coca-Cola; 1 tablespoon black treacle or 1 tablespoon molasses; 2 teaspoons mustard powder; 2 tablespoons brown sugar

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Recipe by Sackville

This comes from Nigella Lawson's book Nigella Bites and was posted in response to a request on the noticeboard. I've never made it, but her recipes rarely fail!

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READY IN: 3hrs

SERVES: 4

UNITS: US

INGREDIENTS

Nutrition

2

kg mild-cure ham
1

onion, peeled and cut in half
1

(2 liter) bottle Coca-Cola
for the glaze
1

tablespoon black treacle or 1 tablespoon molasses
2

teaspoons mustard powder
2

tablespoons brown sugar

DIRECTIONS

Put ham in a pan, add onion and pour over the Coke.
Bring to the boil, reduce to a simmer, put the lid on and cook for around 2 1/2 hours or around one hour per kilo of meat.
Preheat oven to 240 C degrees.
When ham is cooked, take it out of pan and let cool.
Remove skin, leaving a thin layer of fat.
Use a sharp knife to make large diamond shapes in the fat.
Put a clove in each diamond and spread treacle over skin.
Pat mustard and sugar onto the sticky fat.
Bake in a foil-lined pan for around 10 minutes, or until crispy and bubbly.

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