Gammon steak with caramelised pineapple and a fried egg

This month I’ve delved into dodgy recipes from the 70s – see the chicken supreme – and I’m going to go one deeper and dig up the gammon steak. Specifically, served with pineapple and a fried egg. It’s now a regular feature on the local pub grub menu, but I think this manifestation of gammon was once a staple of recipe books that every 1970s entertaining housewife had to own. It’s now seen as a little bit naff, like cocktail sausages on sticks. Still, there’s something to be said about sweet pineapple slices complementing what is a very salty cut, so when Roaming Roosters offered me a free home-cured gammon steak to try out I could hardly resist!