Shantelle's Glazed Ham
- 1/4 cup maple sugar
- 2 teaspoons ground garam masala
- 2 tablespoons orange juice
- Ceylon cloves, for garnish
- 1 (9-pound) fully cooked bone-in ham (shank or butt end)
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
- For the glaze, combine the dry ingredients and break up any lumps with your fingers.
- Add enough orange juice to make the mixture spreadable.
- Score the ham, with a long thin knife, into a 1-inch-wide diamond pattern.
- Put the ham in a roasting pan and bake for 1 hour.
- After 1 hour, remove the ham from the oven and cover the top and sides, as evenly as possible, with the glaze.
- Press cloves into the points of the diamonds.
- Put the ham back in the oven and continue baking for another 1 hour and 15 minutes, brushing with glaze and juices from the roasting pan every 15 minutes.
- Cover the ham with foil if it starts to get too dark.
- Remove from oven and set aside on a cutting board to cool for 10 to 15
- minutes.
- Carve the ham, arrange on a platter and serve.
maple sugar, ground garam masala, orange juice
Taken from www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/janet-johnston/shantelles-glazed-ham-recipe.html (may not work)