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A favourite for Christmas, a baked ham is an easy way to feed a crowd. Many hams don't need soaking these days, so ask your butcher if you're not sure.

Boiled And Baked Ham

5½ -7¼kg/12-16lb ham

onions, quartered

cloves

black peppercorns

bay leaf

tbsp English mustard

300 milliliters/½pint chicken stock (to make a gravy)

Boiled and baked ham

A lovely cherry sponge cake with a little extra texture from the ground almonds. Dusting the cherries with flour helps stop them sinking to the bottom of the cake.

Equipment and preparation: for this recipe you will need a 23cm/9in savarin mould or a bundt tin (alternatively use a 20cm/8in round cake tin).

Mary's cherry cake

glacé cherries

flour

175 grams/6 ounces softened butter, plus extra for greasing

caster sugar

lemon,

grams/1¾oz almonds

eggs

icing sugar

lemon, juice only

grams/½oz flaked almonds, toasted

glacé cherries, quartered

Mary shows us how to make cherry cake, as seen in the very first Technical Challenge of Series 5.

Cherry cake

A pork joint coated in crunchy crackling is always welcome at the table, but when it’s Delia Smith’s perfect roast pork, it’s the guest of honour. Use our <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/articles/roast-calculator">roasting calculator</a> to work out the exact times and temperatures for your roast.

Each serving provides 355 kcal, 59g protein, 3g carbohydrates (of which 1.5g sugars), 11g fat (of which 4g saturates), 0.5g fibre and 0.9g salt.

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