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The Best-Ever Glazed Baked Ham Recipe

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An Easy Recipe For Glazed Baked Ham

How would you describe the best-ever glazed baked ham recipe? In my opinion, the recipe for the best baked ham would have to be fairly easy to put together and yield an absolutely delicious result. This recipe does just that. It is actually very easy and the result will melt-in-your-mouth.

This recipe has become a tradition at our house, both an Easter dinner tradition and a New Year's Day tradition. Occasionally, we have been known to have it at a special gathering in the summer as it is the perfect accompaniment to potato salad and country seed bread. We do reserve it for special occasions because we know that ham, especially the cut used in this recipe, is not a lean meat.

When you prepare this recipe for your friends and family, I hope that it brings the same rave reviews at your house as it does every single time at mine. My youngest son was actually heard recently to say, "I liked it better when Doug did not like ham!" Can you guess why a 15-year old teenager would say that? If you guessed because sharing it with his brother means there is less for him, then you would be right!

Picture of our Best-Ever Glazed Baked Ham.

This ham recipe really could not be easier and it is a printable recipe, too!

Serves: 10 to 12 people
Prep Time: 30 minutes
Total Time: 2 hours

Ingredients

A 6 to 7 pound cooked ham with the bone in. In Canada this ham is called a smoked pork picnic shoulder ham
1/2 cup of orange marmalade (although I often substitute other jams like pineapple)
2 tablespoons of honey mustard (this can be a prepared honey mustard or a simple mix of equal parts of honey and mustard)
Whole cloves

Instructions

Preheat your oven to 325 degrees.
Line a 13 by 9 inch pan with foil and put in a small rack.
Remove the wrapper from the ham. My hams also come with a mesh on them that I remove.
Cut away the tough rind on the ham leaving at least 1/4 inch of the fat which helps keep the meat from drying out as it cooks.
Score the top and the sides in a diamond pattern.
Add a clove in the center area of each diamond.
Place ham in the dish with the decorated side up.
Stir together the glaze ingredients in a small bowl.
Brush the ham with about half of the glaze.
Bake for 1 hour and then brush with the rest of the glaze.
Cook for 30 minutes longer or until a meat thermometer registers 140 degrees.
Place ham on a cutting board or serving platter and allow 20 minutes before carving.

Picture by mapplegate.

Printable Version

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Family Traditions Spring From The Oddest Places

A bit of humorous ham!

There was a young lady getting a ham ready for dinner. She cut off the end of the ham and put it in the pan. A watching friend asked why she cut off the end of the ham and the young lady replied that she did not know but that her mother always did that so she thought you were supposed to do it. When asked, her mother replied that she did not know why she cut off the end of the ham but that her mother always did that so she thought you were supposed to do it. Finally, when the Grandmother was asked why she cut off the end of the ham before she baked it the Grandmother replied that it would not fit into her baking pan!

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Cutting Board With Groove

I do not have one (yet) but this is definitely the item that I NEED in my kitchen to contain the juice from my roasts, whether they be roast ham, turkey or beef. The one illustrated here is a high end choice. I love the fact that it has the spikes to hold your roast in place but do wonder how it should be stored. Shown before are some other cutting board choices that are more affordable. have a groove for catching juices but do not have the spikes to hold your roast in place.

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People Are Blogging About Their Hams

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Mardi Gras By the Bite: And here's one that surprised even me. The Farm, the West Side tradition for weddings and banquets is open on Tuesday and Thursday nights for a major buffet. The big draw here is unlimited fried chicken and, on Tuesdays, roast beef and baked ham.

A Simple Shortcut:

If you want to be able to pop the ham in the oven without any fuss when your company has arrived, you can prepare the ham for the glaze the day before, cover it and keep it in the refrigerator until it is time to cook it.

Another Ham Shortcut

If you don't want to prepare the ham yourself...

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Amazon Customer Review:

Amazon customer Joan G. from Roseburg, Oregon, says that her husband was given an Amazon gift certificate and they ordered a ham for Christmas from Omaha Steaks. She says that the spiral sliced ham they received was the best one they have ever purchased. It arrives nicely packaged in a good container that kept the ham refrigerated during shipping. They will be ordering from Omaha again.

Honey Baked Hams "What the World Needs Now" Commercial

Our ham is delicious enough to lick the plate afterward but not for the same reason illustrated in this video.

I was searching for something light like a joke to put on this page but then I found this fun video...I hope you enjoy it! Unfortunately though, there was more than one funny HoneyBaked Hams video...and that necessitated the creation of a separate page full of these hysterical videos.

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A Little Hamming Around

Enjoy my page of ham-related humor!

Cookbooks Dedicated to Ham

There are not very many cookbooks dedicated to Ham. Try One Of These Definitive Books ~~ The Ham Book or the Country Ham Book.

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The Ham Book at Amazon.

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The Country Ham Book at Amazon.

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Ham: An Obsession with the Hindquarter on Amazon.

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Deadicated Feb 13, 2012 @ 10:47 pm | delete

I want to make a baked glaze ham right now! I think I saw a Martha Stewart Show once where they glazed toe ham with a can of Coca Cola; I thought that was interesting, and it looked really good. Thanks for sharing your recipe; I'll have to try it out.

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Pennyseeker Jan 11, 2012 @ 6:57 am | delete

Interesting lens!

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KimGiancaterino Jan 5, 2012 @ 9:20 am | delete

I don't eat meat, but my husband made glazed ham for Christmas and everyone is still raving about it. He will love this lens. Happy new year!

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chiakisato Jan 4, 2012 @ 4:35 am | delete

I used to buy some baked ham at a grocery everyday when I lived in America.

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BigGirlBlue Jan 2, 2012 @ 11:05 pm | delete

I swear I can smell ham!

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survivoryea Dec 22, 2011 @ 5:20 pm | delete

This just sounds too good! Thanks for all the good tips for one of my favorite foods!

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miles3311 Dec 22, 2011 @ 11:19 am | delete

I'm going to try it for our xmas dinner. Thanks for sharing!

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LornsA178 Dec 18, 2011 @ 9:09 pm | delete

Look delicious! I might try it this Christmas.

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michaeloc Dec 18, 2011 @ 9:49 am | delete

Looks good.

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tonyb65 Dec 16, 2011 @ 7:11 am | delete

mmmmm, scrumptious

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EagleScoutMom Dec 15, 2011 @ 1:52 am | delete

Yumdillyicious! (I made that one up!) I'm gonna try your recipe - it looks great!

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cyberwizzard Dec 13, 2011 @ 12:55 pm | delete

Simply delicious!

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queen2010 Dec 11, 2011 @ 7:25 am | delete

Nice lens, hoping you can visit one of my lenses soon. I would appreciate it so much. Thanks

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cleanyoucar Dec 7, 2011 @ 9:24 am | delete

Mouth watering! We would always have ham as our "Noche Buena" meal here in the Philippines. Great stuff, keep em coming

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SalmonRecipes Dec 5, 2011 @ 4:35 am | delete

This is awesome. I like this recipe very much.
You are a great lens creator.
I like Salmon Recipes as well.
Hope you will try.
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