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In the Slow-Cooked Black Treacle Ham do you have to use mustard or not, as we as a family don't like it.
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Nigella's Slow-Cooked Black Treacle Ham (from SIMPLY NIGELLA) cooks a gammon ham in a very low oven overnight and then finishes the ham in a hot oven to burnish a piquant treacle glaze.
The glaze includes treacle, sugar and mustard and is brushed over the ham. Usually a thin layer of mustard is spread over the fat of the ham as it would hold on a layer of sugar, that would then caramelize in a hot oven. However for this particular glaze the treacle will help the sugar to adhere so you could leave the mustard out. However, Dijon mustard is very mild and we suspect that you would not notice any particular mustard flavour, particularly as once the ham is sliced thinly you will hardly have any mustard on each slice.
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