We win a ham every now and then around Christmas time, at our local club. Each time it has gone off in the frig within a couple of weeks, and then we found out that they aren't double cooked, and that most people who win them cook them in the oven, with a nice glazing, e.g. apricot jam, with cloves stuck in, etc.

The last one we won was a few weeks ago, so hubby decided to smoke it in the barbecue, along with a chicken.

The ham was wonderful. Best I've tasted since I was a kid. So now, we've taken up smoking. (He's smoking half the turkey which we won on Friday, right now.)

Also, when I was a kid we lived next door to a baker and one year he offered to bake our Christmas ham the way he always did it - encased in heavily salted bread dough. Yum! Never tasted anything like it, before or since.

Helen