Brown Sugar and Honey Crusted Ham
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Cooking Time: Servings: 12 |
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Brown Sugar and Honey Crusted Ham Recipe. This is an easy main course that feeds many people and will leave you with plenty of leftovers for ham sandwiches.
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Ingredients
smoked ham half | 8 lbs | skin and excess fat removed |
honey | 1 cup | |
brown sugar | 1 cup | |
nutmeg | 2 tsps | |
ground cloves | 1 tsp | |
cinnamon | 1 tsp |
Directions
- Preheat your oven to 325 degrees.
- Place the ham with the fat side facing up on a rack. Place the rack in a shallow roasting pan with 1/2 inch of water.
- Bake uncovered for 1 hour and 20 minutes.
- Combine the brown sugar, nutmeg, ground cloves, and cinnamon to make a spice mixture.
- Remove the ham and brush with the honey.
- Pat on the spice mixture over the entire ham.
- Place the ham back on the rack in the roasting pan and return to the oven.
- Bake uncovered until the ham reaches an internal temperature of 140 degrees. This should take an additional hour.