To start, weigh the meat to calculate cooking time. Roast gammon cooking time is generally 20 minutes per 450g, plus an added 20 minutes. Put the meat in a large pan, cover with cold water and ...

Gammon has been pre-cured in salt and requires cooking (similar to bacon), whereas ham has been dry-cured or cooked and is ready to eat. Once gammon is cooked, it is called ham.” The more you know!

Carefully lift the gammon out onto a board, remove the string and peel off the rind to leave a good layer of fat. Increase the oven temperature to 200C/180C Fan/Gas 6.

Ham has been dry-cured or cooked and is sold ready to eat. So, if you’re buying it from the supermarket or your butcher to cook yourself, it’s called gammon.

Prep: 10minCook: 2 hoursServes: 6 Serve the tender pink ham thickly sliced, with a simple sauce of grain mustard whisked with a little of the broth, lightly flavoured with white wine and apple juice.

MEATY DEAL I bagged a £18.07 gammon for £1.82 – sorry kids, tacos are off the menu, tonight’s egg, ham & chips ...