A mum who glazed a gammon in honey and spent seven hours slow-cooking it was left mortified after realising she had made an hilarious oversight.
Lauren Mackay had taken the pork out of the fridge in the morning, soaked it in water for an hour and glazed it in honey, before putting it in the slow cooker for seven hours and heading out to work.
But the NHS rehab support worker quickly realised she had made a huge error when it was ready to eat, on the back of a long day at work and being rushed off her feet with her newborn daughter Delilah Makepeace.
The 27-year-old says she noticed a strange 'skin' around the gammon and rang her mum for help - who broke the bad news that she had failed to remove the plastic wrapping first.
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