Honey Backed Ham

By Gilmore

Honeybaked Ham sells delicious sprial cut hams and turkey breast at their many locations and also from their website. Many locations have a cafe that serve great soups, sandwiches and more. Here are two copycat recipes for Honeybaked Ham. You can check their website for a location near you to purchase a ham or turkey or maybe just enjoy lunch out. You can also send a ham or turkey as a gift from the site. Check out Honeybaked Ham's website.

Ingredients

• Honeybaked Ham Glaze
• 1 fully cooked shank half ham (bone-in, any)
• 1 Cup sugar
• 1/4 Teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 1/4 Teaspoon ground nutmeg
• 1/4 Teaspoon ground clove
• 1/8 Teaspoon paprika
• 1 Dash ground ginger
• 1 Dash ground allspice

Details

Preparation time 10mins
Cooking time 65mins
Adapted from meemoskitchen.blogspot.com

Preparation

Step 1

Begin by slicing your ham like the sprial hams. Use a very sharp knife to cut the ham into thin slices around the bone. Do not cut all the way down to the bone or the meat may not hold together. Keep the slices thin. Start at the bottom and work your way up, turn the ham as you slice around the ham.

Mix the remaining ingredients together in a small bowl.

Lay down a couple sheets of wax paper onto a flat surface, such as your kitchen counter. Pour the sugar mixture onto the wax paper and spread it around evenly.

Place 2-3 large sheets of wax paper on your work area. Pour the sugar mixture onto the wax paper and spread evenly over the wax paper.
Roll ham in the sugar mixture, coating well. Coating only the surface you have sliced, not the flat end of the ham.

Turn the ham onto its flat end on a plate. Use a blow torch with a medium-size flame to caramelize the sugar. Wave the torch over the sugar with rapid movement, so that the sugar bubbles and browns. Be careful not to burn the ham. Turn plate so that you can run the torch over the entire surface of the ham. Repeat with more coating and caramelizing process until the ham has been well-glazed.

Serve cold or warm.


Knock-off Honey Baked Ham
1/2 spiral cut smoked ham (@ 7 lbs. fully cooked)
1/2 Cup pear juice
1/2 Cup orange juice
1/2 Cup firmly packed brown sugar
1/2 Cup honey

Preheat oven to 375 ° F.
Place ham, cut end down, in a large baking pan.
Mix pear nectar and orange juice in a bowl. Bake ham for 15 minutes basting frequently with juices.
Mix brown sugar and honey together in a small bowl. Brush mixture over ham and bake for another hour or until internal temperature reads 140 °F.
Honey Baked Ham corporation uses a butane torch to carmelize the glaze to a crust. The ham is placed on top of a huge metal drum covered with foil and carmelized.