Simple Whole Baked Ham Recipe with Brown Sugar Glaze

This is the best simple baked ham recipe with a brown sugar glaze. The ham is baked in the oven, so it’s easy to make, and you don’t have to worry about having a huge piece of meat on hand. The brown sugar glaze is sweet and sticky, so it’s perfect for dipping your fingers in while you eat.

We have put together a simple baked ham recipe that is the best for all of your holiday celebrations, including Christmas gifts.

This recipe will make a delicious ham that any family would love to receive as a gift. It can be made with a combination of different types of meat and can be baked in the oven or on the grill. The brown sugar glaze adds sweetness to every bite!

Whole Baked Ham

This baked ham recipe is easy to prep. It's studded with cloves and sweetened with brown sugar for a delicious way to celebrate special occasions

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Cook Time 3 hours hrs

Ingredients

  

• 1 tbsp Peppercorns
• 1 tbsp Cloves
• 3 Bay Leaves
• 11 Pound Young Pig
• 1/2 Cup Vineger

Instructions

 

• After cutting away the bone and point from the ham of a young pig, rub with salt, put it into a small crock and pour over it hot vinegar in which have been boiled a handful of chopped eschalots or onions, alittle tarragon, a spoonful of peppercorns, a teaspoonful of cloves and 3 bay leaves, let it lay in this for a week; if it is only one-half covered it should be drenched and turned daily.
• If a small piece only is to be baked, the spices should be taken in proportion. If the ham is to be boiled , put it on the fire with half of the liquor and about 1 or 2 quarts of water, with the skin to the top , cover  tightly and boil until almost tender. Then pour off all of the broth and strain it; put a piece of butter into the pan and either take a sharp knife and criss-cross the skin of the ham and insert a clove in the corner of each little square, or else take off the skin and thickly dredge the ham with finely rolled crackers mixed with nutmeg, abke uncovered in ahot oven until quite tender and brown , gradually add the liquor, 1/2 cupful at a time.
• Baste the sides of the ham frequently but with care, so that the upper crust will become crisp. When serving, take part of the fat from the gravy, put into it a heaping spoonful of flour, stir for a few minutes, make up as much gravy as is wanted and put in a few lemon slices.
• The ham can be granished as follows: Boil several celery roots in salted water until half done, slice lengthwise and cook them not too tender in the ham broth before the latter is poured off. Set aside until ready to serve, and when the gravy is done, simmer the celery in this for a few moments , and use to garnish the dish.

  To cook a whole ham will take about 3 hours