Prep your fruit and vegetables. Peel and dice your onion, carrots, and apples. Then clean and dice your celery.

Load your gammon shank into the slow cooker and pour over apple cider.

Load the fruit and veggies into the gaps and season with salt, pepper and your dried herbs and garlic.

Slow cook for 5 hours, remove the gammon shank and allow to cool a little so that its not too hot to handle. Then shred with your hands.

Reduce the liquid by half in your slow cooker. This excess liquid can then be stock for another day and then add back in your shredded gammon. Stir in beans and then allow to slow cook for another 30 minutes to allow the beans to warm through before serving.