honey-glazed ham roast
2014-06-19
An entire ham for a warm meal is usually roasted or pot roasted. Often a honey glaze is applied to color the ham darker and make it sweeter. It seems to be one of those semi-obligatory items around Thanksgiving or the holly days.
Pic1: half-ham roastPic2: carved and served
INGREDIENTS
This is what you need for too many servings:
- 8 lb. butt ham
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1 cup honey
or use the glaze package that came with it - spices
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 250 ºF.
- Dilute the honey with some water until liquid.
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Mix the honey with 1 tbsp. olive oil and the spices you wan to apply.
Salt is not needed. The ham is already salty enough. - Place the ham flat side down in a shallow oven-proof dish.
- Trim off any skin. Do not expose the meat.
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Optional:
- Push some whole cloves into the ham.
- If no glaze, pin some pine-apple slices to the ham with toothpicks instead.
- Pour ¼” water in the baking dish.
- Bake at 250 ºF for about 15 min. per pound.
- When the internal temperature reaches 130 ºF, increase heat to 425 ºF.
- Remove the ham from the oven. Add water to the baking dish to previous ¼” level.
- Spread half of the honey & spice mix over the ham with a brush or spatula.
- Bake another 45 minutes, basting every 10 minutes with the drippings and more glaze.
- Remove from the oven and rest 15 minutes before carving.
Serving suggestion:
- I served this with zucchinis in Onion Confiture.