BAKED HAM WITH STICKY MEYER LEMON-SPICE GLAZE

By Kitchenbee

Sunset – April 2010 – Brunch With Friends article

Ingredients

• 1 cooked, bone-in half-ham from the shank or butt (without glaze, 6-7 lbs)
• 3/4 cup packed light brown sugar
• Finely shredded lemon zest and juice of 6 medium Meyer lemons
• 1 1/4 tsp ground ginger

Preparation

Step 1

Preheat oven to 350. Cut off tough, leatherlike skin from ham (if it has it) and score fat and meat in a crosshatch pattern. Put ham, fat side up, in a large roasting pan and tent loosely with foil. Bake until a thermometer in thickest part of meat reaches 120, about 1 ½ hours.

Meanwhile, make glaze: in bowl, whisk sugar, zest, juice, and ginger until smooth.

Uncover ham and pour glaze over it into pan. Bake ham, uncovered, basting ham and stirring glaze every 10 minutes, until glaze is a thickened, shiny syrup and thermometer reaches 134-140, 15-30 minutes total.

Let ham rest 5 minutes, then brush with glaze and transfer to a cutting board. Scrape remaining glaze into a small bowl. Carve ham and spoon more glaze on top.