New Orleans Root Beer Glazed Ham

Total Time: 1 hr 45 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 20
• 1 (4 lb) cured smoked ham
• 1/2 teaspoon dry mustard
• 3/4 cup dark brown sugar
• 24 ounces barq root beer (two cans)
• 1 1/2 tablespoons tabasco caribbean style steak sauce
• 6 cloves
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 1/2 orange, juice and zest of
• 1/2 lemon, rind of

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• 2 place the ham in a broiling pan and cut shallow gashes in a criss-cross pattern across the top half.
• 3 combine the brown sugar and the dry mustard and pat it all over the ham.
• 4 put the ham in the oven.
• 5 combine all the other ingredients in a saucepan.
• 6 bring the mixture to a boil, then lower to a simmer, and cook until the liquid volumne is reduced to about one cup.
• 7 strain.
• 8 spoon some of the glaze over the top of the ham.
• 9 spoon more glaze, at 15-minute intervals, until it is all gone.
• 10 continue baking until the ham reaches an internal temperature of 160-degrees on a meat thermometer.
• 11 remove from oven and allow to rest for about one hour before carving.