How to cook ham

Shopping list

• Fruit and vegetables

  • 2 leeks, halved
  • 1 onion, halved
  • 1 carrot, cut into big chunks
  • 1 tsp grated orange zest

• Tins, packets and jars

  • 2-3 tbsp English mustard powder

• Cooking ingredients

  • 10 black peppercorns
  • 1 tsp coriander seeds
  • 3 tbsp demerara sugar
  • 3 tbsp light muscovado sugar
  • handful whole cloves, for decoration
  • honey to drizzle

• Meat, fish and poultry

  • 1 raw smoked ham, about 5kg/11lb, bone in

• Other

  • 2 bay leaves

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