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Baked Christmas ham with apple, celery and walnut salad

Ingredients

Method

1. Preheat oven to 160c
2. Carefully peel the skin off the ham, place the ham into a large baking dish and pour over most of the cider, saving a little for the paste
3. Bake in the oven for 1 hour, basting often
4. Mix together the sugar, ginger and mustard with the remaining cider into a paste
5. After 1 hour, remove ham from the oven and increase oven temperature to 200c
6. With a sharp knife score the layer of fat by cutting squares 1cm in size into the fat
7. Smear the paste over the ham and return to the oven
8. Bake for another 15-20 minutes, until golden brown, cool then slice
9. Salad
10. Slice the apple, place into a bowl and pour over the vinegar, oil and mustard
11. Toss to combine
12. Pick the celery leaves and add to the bowl with the sliced celery and the walnuts
13. Toss and serve with slices of the baked ham, warm crusty bread and lots of butter

Notes

Note Salad serves 6, Ham will feed a small army !

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