Baked Ham With Orange-Honey Glaze

(from teacherrap’s recipe box)

Source: Southern Living (from RecipeThing user saymyname)

Serves 20 people

Categories: Main Dish, Pork

Ingredients

  • 1 (6 ounce) can frozen orange juice concentrate, thawed
  • 1 3/4 cups water
  • 1/2 cup honey
  • 3 tablespoons cornstarch
  • 1 teaspoon dry mustard
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
  • cinnamon
  • 1 (7 -9 lb) smoked fully cooked whole boneless ham
  • 1 whole clove
  • 2 oranges, peeled and sectioned

Directions

  1. In a saucepan, combine the first 3 ingredients.

  2. Remove 1/4 cup of mixture and combine with cornstarch, stirring until mixture is smooth.

  3. Add the cornstarch mixture to the orange juice mixture in the saucepan; stir until smooth.

  4. Add in the dry mustard and next 3 ingredients; stir to combine.

  5. Cook over medium heat, stirring continually, until the mixture comes to a boil; cook for 1 minute.

  6. Remove the cinnamon stick and take the pan off the stove burner and set aside.

  7. Score the fat on the ham in a diamond pattern; stud with whole cloves.

  8. Place ham, fat side up, on a rack in a shallow roasting pan.

  9. Insert meat thermometer; make sure it does not touch fat.

  10. Bake, uncovered, in a 325 degree oven for 2 hours or until meat thermometer reads 140­°.

  11. After the first hour of baking, baste the ham every 15 minutes with orange-honey sauce. Heat the remaining sauce; add orange sections; serve with ham.

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