Cursing the Gammon - in Memory of its author, our dear friend *Phoenix*

This had me in fits of laughter. Raising a glass of Sherry in memory to you Phoenix

Fabulous.

As ever

Cheers ?

I gave three gammons to cook this year, will definitely think of dear Phoenix ???

I think Phoenix might have enjoyed this Christmas Cake recipe to go with the gammon.

Ingredients: 1 cup water
8oz mixed nuts
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup butter
1tsp. salt
2 cups dried fruit
4 large eggs
Juice of a lemon
1tsp baking powder
1 bottle Bourbon
Method

Sample the Bourbon to check the quality
Take a large bowl
Check the Bourbon again to be sure it is of the highest quality. Pour 1 cup and drink. Repeat.
Turn on the electric mixer, beat 1 cup of butter in a large fluffy bowl. Add 1 tsp of sugar and beat again.
Make sure the Bourbon is still OK. Cry another tup.
Turn on the mixerer. Break 2 eggs and add to the bowl. Chuck in the dried fruit. Mix on the turner. If the dried fruit gets stuck in the beaterers, pry it loose with a drewscriver.
Sample the Bourbon to check tonsiscency
Next, sift two cups of salt, or something,. Who cares?
Check the Bourbon.
Now sift the lemon juice and strain your nuts.
Add in a tablespoon of sugar or something. Whatever you find.
Grease the oven. Turn the cake tin350 degrees. Don't forget to beat off the turnerer.
Throw the bowl out of the window, check the Bourbob again and go to bed!

This was the foreward to a recipe book I helped compile at my WI in 2007. We sold copies for charity and made over £1000 after printing costs.

After I stopped laughing at both of those, I showed them to my cook DH, and then had to pick him up off the floor. I think we might get Gagagran's Christmas cake next year as he was so taken with it...

Thank you, MayBeMaw and Gagagran!!

Thanks for this

Phoenix's legacy. ?

Thanks MawBeMaw Dear Phoenix.

Like it Gagagran

So brilliant!

Oh, that's wonderful, Maw. Thank you so much for posting Phoenix's "Gammon". I have heard so much about
it and was hoping someone would.

Love the Christmas Cake Gagagran!
It goes beautifully with the gammon.

Thanks maw.
Love it and miss phoenix

When it is appropriate I will post the Curse she wrote for the Idiot. It didn't work but I live in hope.

Thankyou for posting as a wry smile has appeared on my face, not feeling there’s much to smile about these days and this has helped enormously. Will refer back if I feel a bout of ‘the glums’ coming on in the next few days. x

I'm so glad you posted this, MayBeMaw as I've been thinking about it and dear Phoenix.
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Must remember to put gammon on my shopping list.

Thank you Gagagran

I haven't made a cake yet this year and this recipe sounds just the ticket!!

i loved this post but i have never cooked gammon and don't drink, i do have a slow cooker that everyone has said is brilliant but i have never used, maybe i will buy gammon and try it on the other hand i could just get it cold at the deli counter.

Great memories of a lovely lady who always made me smile.

Her threads were absolute gems!

She is missed

Thank you for posting this Maw?

Cursing the Gammon is every bit as funny as it was first time round. Phoenix had such a fabulous sense of humour and your Christmas Cake recipe would certainly have appealed to her indeed Gagagran. Thank you too for giving us another festive giggle.

Phoenix sounded like the sort of person who would be pleased to know she had left us with this wonderfully humorous piece of her writing and we would all be re-reading it.
I think she would want us to smile when we remember her and not be morose. ?
Thanks Maw.
Happy “gammon cursing” to all attempting it this Christmastime.

I was reading this when my OH was opening a bottle of red wine to go into my cottage pie. I asked him how old it was. He thought he had better try it first, then had a second go … some did get in the dinner. We were both laughing too much to cook properly.

TillyTrotter

Phoenix sounded like the sort of person who would be pleased to know she had left us with this wonderfully humorous piece of her writing and we would all be re-reading it.
I think she would want us to smile when we remember her and not be morose. ?
Thanks Maw.
Happy “gammon cursing” to all attempting it this Christmastime.

Yes, she was. She never lost her sense of humour.

She was a ray of sunshine, like her sunflowers

Thankyou Gagagran, i have been in stitches reading this. Its so wonderful to have a lovely light-hearted attitude to stuff we all try to perfect each december, we all need to lighten up, dont we? Thankyou again