Baked Ham
Baked Ham is our Christmas tradition – we love the ham, we love the leftover ham, and we really love the Mustard Sauce.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 2 hours
- Total Time: 2 hours 10 minutes
- Yield: 10 servings 1x
- Category: Pork
- Method: Oven
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 small ham, about 4 lbs (2 kg)
- 1 cup brown sugar
- 1/2 tsp dry mustard
- 1 tbs red wine vinegar
- Mustard Sauce:
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup (2oz, 60ml) milk
- 1/4 cup (2oz, 60ml) cider or white vinegar
- 2 tbs dry mustard
- 1 egg
- pinch salt
- 2 tbs butter
Instructions
- Ham:
- Put ham on rack in roasting pan and roast in 325F (165C) oven.
- About 30 minutes before it’s done mix the sugar, mustard and vinegar.
- Remove the ham from the oven.
- Remove the skin if there is any, score the fat with a sharp knife (diamond pattern is pretty).
- Pat the brown sugar mixture over the top of the ham and return to oven.
- Finish baking.
- Remove ham and allow rest for 15 – 20 minutes before slicing.
- Mustard Sauce:
- Put the egg into the top of a double boiler and whisk until beaten.
- Add sugar, milk and mustard, whisk well.
- Cook over simmering water for about 5 minutes, until sugar and mustard are dissolved and mixture is hot, whisking (almost) constantly
- Add vinegar and continue to cook until thick.
- Remove from heat, stir in butter and salt.
Notes
Ham: Mine was uncooked and it was done in just under 2 hours, including the time it was out of the oven for the sugar topping.
Mustard Sauce: If you don’t have a double boiler, put a metal bowl on a saucepan partially filled with water. The bottom of the bowl should not touch the water. This is good with almost everything and keeps a long time.
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 6 oz
- Calories: 457
- Sugar: 24.8 g
- Sodium: 2968.9 mg
- Fat: 19.7 g
- Saturated Fat: 7.4 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 25.3 g
- Fiber: 0.2 g
- Protein: 42.2 g
- Cholesterol: 132.2 mg
Keywords: ham, baked ham, roast ham
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