Honey Glazed Spiral Ham

HONEY GLAZED SPIRAL HAM

12/31/2017

Never again will you be buying an expensive store-bought Honey Baked Ham - once you have discovered how amazingly simple it is to make one at home! The sweet honey glaze is perfect on a hickory-smoked spiral-cut ham, slow-cooked and so moist - perfect for a special holiday!

Not only will you save time and money, but you'll have the BEST honey glazed baked ham that you have ever had - so moist and flavorful! Wanna know my secret?

Honey Glazed Baked Ham

Or more importantly, do you want to know theirs?

My hair salon is located right next to the Honey Baked Ham Store, and every holiday it is a cluster jam trying to find a parking spot to get my hair done, due to all of the fools waiting in line for their "fresh" hams. If they only knew that the refrigerated trailers have been sitting behind the building for two months now - there is nothing fresh or magical about waiting until the last minute to pick it up at the ham store. And if you've ever been disappointed with the quality of the ham, or how dried out it is when you put it out for guests, this is going to rock your world!

Pick up your favorite size spiral-cut ham from Costco (yup, they have the best quality). Using a method similar to Sous Vide, you will place the shrink-wrapped ham in warm water to let it gently warm up and rest...which keeps all the moisture and flavor in the ham, right where it belongs. A slow roast in the oven in a cooking bag slowly heats the ham to the center, and keeps it so moist!

A homemade brown sugar and honey glaze is drizzled over the sides, and after a quick trip to a 375 degree oven (five minutes the first time, then you re-glaze and bake for an additional 5 minutes). That's it! Tried and true, you will have the most perfect Honey Glazed Spiral Ham that you have ever tasted! So moist, so flavorful! Let it sit for 10 minutes before you serve - but everyone will be racing to the kitchen long before that to try and sneak a bite of this fabulous ham!

And like me, you can them make fun of all those silly people waiting in the block-long line at the ham store! Hope that you enjoy this as much as we do!

Holiday Honey Glazed Spiral Ham

HONEY GLAZED
SPIRAL HAM

Never again will you be buying an expensive store-bought Honey Baked Ham – once you have discovered how amazingly simple it is to make one at home! The sweet honey glaze is perfect on a hickory smoked spiral-cut ham, slow-cooked and so moist - perfect for a special holiday!

INGREDIENTS:
1 (8-10 lb.) spiral cut sliced ham (with no water added – we prefer Costco brand)
¼ cup unsalted butter
½ cup honey
½ cup packed light brown sugar
2 tablespoons maple syrup (the real stuff, not pancake syrup)
1 tablespoon Dijon mustard or spicy honey mustard
½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
¼ teaspoon ground ginger
1/8 teaspoon ground cloves
1 Reynolds Oven Bag (turkey sized)

HOW WE MAKE THIS:

Remove foil or paper covering from ham – leave the shrink-wrapped plastic on the ham. Place ham in a large pan (or clean sink that plugs up) and cover with hot tap water; let rest for 45 minutes. Drain water and cover with hot tap water again, and let rest for an additional 45 minutes.
Preheat oven to 250 degrees and adjust oven rack to lowest position.
Unwrap ham and remove plastic disk below ham bone. Place ham in oven bag and wrap bag tightly around the ham, removing as much air as possible so that it fits snugly around the ham. Cut several small slits on the top of the bag.
Set ham cut-side down in a large roasting pan and bake until the center reaches 100 degrees on an instant-read thermometer, about 1-1/2 hours (about 10 minutes per pound).
Near the end of the baking time, melt butter in a small saucepan over medium heat. Add the remaining ingredients, whisking constantly, just until sugar dissolves. Continue to cook until it reaches the consistency of honey, about 10 minutes.
Remove ham from oven. Increase oven temperature to 375 degrees. Cut oven bag at the top and roll down to expose the ham. Brush half of the glaze over the top and sides of the ham. Bake for 5 minutes. Remove from oven and brush with remaining glaze (if the glaze has hardened in your sauce pan, simply re-warm it for a minute or two). Return ham to oven and bake for 5 minutes longer.
Remove from oven and tent ham with foil; let rest for 10 minutes before carving and serving.

YIELD: 10-16 servings (10-pound ham)

RECIPE SOURCE: Cooking method adapted from Cooks Illustrated.

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