A Great Start to Christmas Day

Fortunately, our neighbour took himself off to his place of work, outside of the affected area and filled a dozen 5 litre bottles with water and dished those out around our close :)
 
Good neighbour!
 
Water is back on :)

We are showered and flushing the toilet!

I’ve been using water from the water butts most of the day :)
 
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A PITA but it could have been much worse! Glad it's sorted.
 
Cagey75 said:
One thing you can try for your ham, is cook it in cola! I'm trying it for the first time this year :D
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Glad to hear your water is back, I know how frustrating that can be!

On the other hand, I did indeed boil my ham in cola, ant no lie, it turned out delicious! Usually the ham is always left on the plates, my girls are not big fans - but this year they lapped it up, it was definitely a little sweeter but most certainly more tender, less chewy
 
Cagey75 said:
Glad to hear your water is back, I know how frustrating that can be!

On the other hand, I did indeed boil my ham in cola, ant no lie, it turned out delicious! Usually the ham is always left on the plates, my girls are not big fans - but this year they lapped it up, it was definitely a little sweeter but most certainly more tender, less chewy
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On the surmise you mean normal standard Cola...

The huge sugar content would make the meat sweeter and as for more tender, IIRC Cola has Phosphoric Acid in its formula and I would imagine that would be a contributing factor in the tenderising process.

Does sound like one way to aid paletability:)
 
Box Brownie said:
On the surmise you mean normal standard Cola...

The huge sugar content would make the meat sweeter and as for more tender, IIRC Cola has Phosphoric Acid in its formula and I would imagine that would be a contributing factor in the tenderising process.

Does sound like one way to aid paletability:)
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Yeah full on sugar cola, Coke is the go to apparently but I'm sure any full sugar cola will do the trick! It felt weird at first, dumping a full 2ltr of coke into the pot, but as I baby sat it over time I could see it doing it's job - most tender ham I've done in years! Finished off in the oven smothered in mustard abd honey - everyone loved it

Ihr per kilo on the boil btw, mine was 3kg - 3hrs in the cola, 40 mins in the oven after with whatever seasoning you fancy
 
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