My Dad'S Limerick Ham
- 6 pounds ham cured
- 1/2 cup cider vinegar
- Equal
- ham
- 1 onion small, peeled
- 2 bay leaves
- 6 cloves
- 8 tablespoons brown mustard
- 8 tablespoons brown sugar
- whole cloves
- 6 ounces orange juice frozen, thawed, optional
- Put ham in large stock pot and cover with water/cider mixture, add vinegar, 6 cloves, bay leaves and onion.
- Bring to boil and simmer for 15 to 20 minutes per pound until meat begins to pull away from center bone.
- Remove from heat and leave soaking in pot for 2 hours.
- Preheat oven to 350. Remove ham from pot and take off heavy skin, put ham in roaster, cut crisscrosses in fat.
- Reserve stock if using orange juice.
- Mix mustard and sugar into paste.
- Rub or pat mustard mixture over ham, stick cloves in ham.
- Mix orange juice and 1/2 to 1 cup of stock together and pour around ham in dish.
- Bake 30 minutes or until ham begins to brown.
ham cured, cider vinegar, equal, ham, onion, bay leaves, cloves, brown mustard, brown sugar, cloves, orange juice
Taken from www.yummly.com/recipe/My-Dad_s-Limerick-Ham-1667755 (may not work)