Why pay more when you can make your own delicious ham glaze and start a new holiday food tradition in your family?
Photo by Karen Hermann
SERVINGS VARY DEPENDING ON SIZE
1 fully cooked spiral-cut ham, packing liquid reserved
½ cup brown sugar
½ cup maple syrup
¼ cup Dijon mustard
½ teaspoon cinnamon
Preheat oven to 275 F. Place ham cut-side down on a large piece of aluminum foil. Pour reserved liquid all over and completely seal with foil. Place on a baking sheet and warm in the oven for 10 minutes per pound.
While ham is warming, make glaze. Into a medium pan over medium-low heat, add sugar, syrup, mustard and cinnamon, and cook, stirring, until sugar is completely dissolved. Set aside until ready to use.
Remove ham from oven about 30 minutes before the end of cooking time. Increase temperature to 400 F. Remove or turn down foil and brush ham with glaze. Return to oven and cook the final 30 minutes until glaze is bubbly. Remove from oven and let sit 15 minutes before serving.
Chef’s Tips
Spiral hams
- Hams are pre-cooked and can be eaten out of the package at room temperature or warmed in the oven with a glaze added.
- Be careful when warming not to overheat (or heat at too high a temperature) or the ham will dry out.
- A 7-pound spiral ham will easily feed 10–14 people; a little less if the ham has a bone.
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