British artisan food producer, fine food supplier and Royal Warrant holder, DukesHill has launched its Christmas 2023 collection for festive food, hampers and gifts.
Established in 1985 in the Shropshire countryside curing ham using time-honoured traditional techniques, DukesHill’s range has since grown and is renowned for championing producers whose skilled use of unique and traditional methods create outstanding food and flavours. Harrods, Fortnum & Mason and Selfridges are just some of the famous food halls that stock DukesHill’s finest traditionally cured hams.
With an uncompromising commitment to sourcing and creating the very best British produce, with the highest regard for animal welfare, DukesHill’s Christmas collection has a quality that is second to none.
Over forty thousand hams were sold during the festive season in 2022, a number the luxury food producer is hoping to exceed in 2023.
Mark Gallagher, DukesHill’s CEO said: “Our sales continue to go from strength to strength, with both new and loyal returning direct customers as well as trade customers such as Fortnum & Mason and Harrods. We’re seeing strong demand for better quality outdoor-bred meat and gearing ourselves up for another busy Christmas and New Year. We’re expecting to cure over forty five thousand hams this season.”
Highlights for the season include a special Christmas edition Cranberry Glazed Ham with Pork & Cranberry Stuffing, Free Range Bronze Turkeys from Kent, a 30 year-old family recipe Christmas Pudding and their legendary Truly Magnificent Hamper, priced at £895.
2023 Christmas Highlights
Cranberry Glazed Ham with Pork & Cranberry Stuffing – Half ham, RRP £82 (min 2kg), Whole ham, RRP £130 (min 4kg)
As proud Royal Warrant holders, DukesHill are undeniable experts in curing the finest hams. This season their special edition Christmas Ham is the Cranberry Glazed Ham, generously stuffed with Pork & Cranberry Stuffing. Using their traditional Wiltshire Cure, the hams spend time maturing in DukesHill’s own-recipe brine to which a touch of unrefined brown sugar is added for a subtle sweet flavour. The hams are then air dried for a further week, stuffed by hand with pork and cranberry stuffing and steam cooked for 12 hours, allowing the fat to render and soften, giving a delicious buttery texture. Once cooked the hams are trimmed, coated in a cranberry glaze and finished off in glazing ovens, producing hams with a moist texture and mild flavour with a hint of cranberry. This special festive ham will make for a fine centre-piece for your Christmas table.
DukesHill Free Range Bronze Turkey – RRP from £90, various sizes available
The traditional choice for a Christmas Day feast, DukesHill’s free range bronze turkeys taste outstanding. Reared especially for DukesHill in Kent by highly experienced third-generation farmers who have been rearing turkeys for forty years, their turkeys roam freely in grassy paddocks and meadows and are fed a natural cereal-based diet.
Christmas Pudding – RRP £14.50 (454g)
Handmade for over 30 years by the DukesHill team as part of an annual tradition, their rich Christmas Pudding uses butter instead of suet for a much cleaner finish on the palate and combines the rich flavours of the finest French Brandy, succulent vine fruits, cherries, fresh free-range eggs, carrot, mixed spice and candied orange for a wonderfully moist pudding whose secret family recipe has been passed down through the generations.
St Clements Mince Pies – RRP £13.50 (6 x 80g)
Created following customer requests and incorporating classic Christmas flavours, DukesHill’s handmade all-butter pastry St Clements Mince Pies are full of mincemeat soaked in a rich, warming brandy and balanced with a delicate citrus edge from extra St Clements orange and lemon peel.
Pigs In Blankets Kit – RRP £12 (750g)
With plenty of dry-cured streaky bacon and traditional pork cocktail sausages, this easy kit will make 24 tasty ‘piggies’. A Christmas must-have.
Truly Magnificent Hamper – £895
39 items, 2 x 20” wicker hampers with leather straps
The Truly Magnificent Hamper really does live up to its luxurious name. Thirty nine individual items are nestled across two wicker hampers creating a Christmas classic. At its heart is a boneless Large St George’s Ham, cured by DukesHill’s experts and baked with a spiced orange, cinnamon, mace and clove glaze, closely followed by a whole sliced side of superior oak traditionally Smoked Salmon. Included is a selection of artisan cheeses, chutneys, crackers, sables and a duck liver pâté with Cointreau along with a Melton Mowbray Pork Pie, crafted exclusively for DukesHill.
There are sweet treats of DukesHill’s Extra Large Christmas Pudding and a selection of handmade artisan mince pies unique to DukesHill: St Clements, Classic and Almond-topped flavours to add to your feast. You’ll also find Peaches in Brandy, handmade Scottish Shortbread from Loch Lomond, Turkish Delight, and for chocolate lovers, Blonde Chocolate Coffee & Caramelised Hazelnut Mendiants, Dark Chocolate Roasted Almond & Ginger Mendiants, an Extra Large Chocolate Selection box, Chocolate Covered Pecans and Milk Chocolate Covered Honeycomb that’s made in small batches using real honey and the finest Colombian milk chocolate. A selection of fine wines and champagne complete this gourmet journey in a hamper.
Luxury Hot Chocolate Gift Box – £45
The Luxury Hot Chocolate Gift Box is a stylish Christmas gift, containing delicious artisan chocolate and an ingenious Hot Chocolate Shaker – the secret to making the smoothest, most velvety hot chocolate. Shaking creates the right amount of friction to perfectly bind chocolate to warm milk or water which can’t be achieved with stirring alone. By shaking a hot liquid in an airtight container, the air inside the container heats and expands, causing a hot chocolate taste explosion. This ingenious, can’t-live-without hot chocolate shaker has a lid that pops to accommodate the increased pressure as the air expands. A chic gift box to give, it also contains two bags of artisan chocolates, Milk Chocolate Drops and Dark Chocolate Orange, for the very best tasting hot chocolate.
DukesHill sells a wide variety of its products to trade customers, from prestigious five-star hotels and top London food halls to delis, butchers and farm shops. Harrods, Fortnum & Mason and Selfridges are just some of the famous food halls that stock DukesHill’s finest traditionally cured hams.
