Roasted crown of turkey

Ingredients

• 8kg roughly weight of turkey
• 200g butter 
• 1 tbsp. white wine vinegar
• 1 tbsp. Maldon sea salt 

Method

Set your oven at 250c heat until ready, rub a little vinegar over the turkey skin followed by butter and salt, roast for 30 minutes until golden.
Now reduce temp to 120c cook for 6 hours and serve, strain juices and serve with turkey.


Glazed local ham

Ingredients

• 4kg free range gammon / ham 
• 2 Cardamon pods
• 2 star anise 
• 20 cloves(4 only in ham water)
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 1 celery stick
• 1 onion 
• 1 carrot

Method

Place ham into a bowl a run cold water over ham for 1 hour on the skin.
Now place ham in a pot and add spices, vegetables and cover with cold water.
Bring to a boil and simmer for a few minutes.
Now set a oven 120c cook the ham in the pot covered for 6 hours.
Remove ham from liquid, remove top layer of fat leaving a little still on the ham and score well, fill squares with remaining cloves.
Brush now with glaze and bake in the oven 200c for 30 minutes until brown.








Ham glaze

3 tbsp. golden syrup
2 tbsp. soft brown sugar
1 tbsp. Dijon mustard

Method

Put the ingredients into a small pot and gently heat, brush over the ham before roasting in the oven.