Baked Ham Amongst Dark-Brown Carbohydrate Glaze

With exactly a few elementary steps, this beautiful Baked Ham amongst Brown Sugar Glaze tin adorn your table. And fifty-fifty amend hold upwards inward your tummy.

m non certain why I had never baked a ham upwards to that betoken Baked Ham amongst Brown Sugar Glaze

Not equally good awfully long ago, I said to my mother-in-law, "You know, I've never baked a ham." I'm non certain why I had never baked a ham upwards to that betoken ... I exactly never had. "Well, there's zero to it," she replied.

Since then, I've function quite practiced at 'the art' of baking a ham. And my mother in law is correct there's really zero to it. Except ...
... buying a peachy ham.

Truly, if you lot desire moist, tender, juicy, together with fabulously flavorful ham ... purchase a peachy ham.

After that, it's exactly difficult to function wrong.

Perhaps if you lot totally ignored the timer together with allow the ham function waaaaaay equally good long inward the oven ... or didn't pay attending when setting the oven temperature together with laid it waaaaaay equally good high ... you lot could mess it up. So allow 's exactly non do that, okay? Other than that, I mean value it is just difficult to function incorrect amongst a peachy ham.

I suppose what makes a peachy ham tin come upwards downwards to a affair of preference, but I firmly believe a peachy ham is a bone-in whole ham. No pre-cut, spiral-cut, or any-cut materials for us. No pressed-together-without-a-bone materials either.

In our kitchen, it's got to hold upwards a whole bone-in ham. And piece you lot tin purchase these inward 'regular' grocery stores, I experience real blessed to guide maintain i of the best meat suppliers exactly about at which to purchase my meats Shuler Meats.

Since moving to Lexington, NC vii months ago, Shuler's has rapidly function my go-to house for meats. If you lot alive inward the area, I highly recommend you lot give Wayne Shuler together with his crew at Shuler's Meats a visit. They'll accept peachy attention of you, together with assist you lot out if you lot necessitate it!

When my wife Mark together with I went to purchase this item ham, Mr. Wayne was sort plenty to cutting the hefty almost 25 pounder into ii halves for us. That agency nosotros could savor it exactly 12 or thence pounds at a fourth dimension ... 'cause piece I looooove ham leftovers, 25 pounds of ham at i time would guide maintain been a tad much.

Once you've got a peachy ham, only house the ham, fatty together with all, inward a rimmed roasting pan ... no water, no oil, no zero ... exactly a dry out roasting pan ...

... together with encompass the ham amongst foil.

Then bake that beautiful ham for thirty minutes per pound inward a 325 marker oven.

Now sure, you lot tin teach a picayune fancy ... together with score the pare together with fat, fifty-fifty making a diamond designing or something if you'd like. You tin stud the cuts amongst whole cloves. And I'm certain myriad other fancy things.

But us? We function simple. Just a ham together with some foil popped inward the oven.

And elementary certain tastes good.

When there's thirty minutes left inward the ham's baking time, brand the glaze past times combining some dark-brown sugar, fresh orangish juice {or pineapple juice}, together with dry soil cloves ...

... together with mixing it upwards until it forms a thick paste.

Remove the ham from the oven, piece off the fatty thence the dark-brown carbohydrate glaze tin accomplish together with season the meat itself ...

... together with slather that dark-brown carbohydrate glaze all over that gorgeous baked ham.

Very loosely re-cover the glazed ham amongst foil together with proceed baking for the final thirty minutes of the baking time.

Then if you're similar me, facial expression real impatiently for that final thirty minutes to exceed ... exactly waiting together with waiting to dive into that moist together with juicy meat. Jussssst nearly the fourth dimension you lot can't stand upwards it whatever more, it volition hold upwards done.

And believe me, you'll guide maintain a beautiful Baked Ham amongst Brown Sugar Glaze railroad train to grace your tabular array together with satisfy your tummies.

And see? As my mother in law said, there's really zero to it.

Baked Ham amongst Brown Sugar Glaze

(Printable recipe)
Ingredients

1 fully cooked, bone-in ham {whole or one-half a ham}, whatever size
3/4 c. brown sugar
1/4 tsp. ground cloves
1 T. pineapple juice or fresh orangish juice

Directions

Place ham inward a rimmed roasting pan together with encompass amongst aluminum foil. Bake at 325 degrees for thirty minutes per pound. {So, for example, a v lb. ham would bake for 2 1/2 hours. An 8 lb. ham would bake for iv hours, etc.}
One one-half hr {30 minutes} earlier the ham baking fourth dimension is done, brand the glaze past times mixing the dark-brown sugar, cloves, together with fruit juice to shape a paste. Remove ham from the oven together with piece off the pare together with fat. Spread dark-brown carbohydrate glaze all over the ham.
Loosely re-cover ham amongst aluminum foil together with supply to oven. Continue baking for the remaining thirty minutes of the baking time.
Let stand, covered, for 10 minutes earlier slicing to serve.

Enjoy!

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