Roast Ham

We got the four back legs of the pigs back from the butcher last Friday. They were brined for a few weeks and then hung.

I got the butcher to half them. I put the lower leg into the freezer  and I left out the four hams, as seen above, to cook. They weighted 25kgs uncooked weight. That is a lot of ham!

They were too big to fit into anything I had other than a old pot I had for making cheese.

I boiled each ham for four hours each.

Once boiled, I peeled off the rind, be boned and tied the ham.

I cut squares into the fat and added cloves. I used a mix of mustard and brown sugar as a glaze. They went into the oven at a high heat for 25mins. 

Yummy! They tasted amazing!

Later when they cooled, we used a second hand food slicer to slice up the hams.

I divided these into 500g amounts and bagged them for the freezer. 

Now I have lots in the freezer for the kids lunches and for quick meals.

Freezers are such a blessing :-)