watercress, excess stalks cut off • romaine lettuce, roughly sliced • English eating apple, quartered, cored and cut into small chunks • celery sticks, trimmed and finely sliced • –10 radishes, trimmed and sliced • –8 slices of cooked ham, torn into pieces • best-quality Cheddar cheese,.g.Montgomery, cut into strips with a vegetable peeler • best-quality Stilton, e.g. Colston Basset, cut into small cubes • For the quick pickled onion: • red onion, peeled and very thinly sliced into rings • golden caster sugar • cloves •