Sweet Maple Holiday Ham Recipe

How to make it

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• Heat oven to 325°
• Have ready a foil-lined shallow roasting pan filled with a rack.
• Place ham on the rack and bake for about an hour.
• Pour the pan juices into a 1 quart saucepan and place in the freezer for about 10 minutes to cool.
• Pour syrup over ham and return to oven.
• Bake 1/2 hour longer, basting once with syrup from pan.
• Meanwhile, remove saucepan from freezer.
• Skim off and discard fat.
• Whisk in flour and mustard until smooth.
• Wisk in water and Worcestershire sauce.
• Increase the oven temp. to 375° and baste ham again with pan drippings.
• Bake about 15 minutes longer. Use meat thermometer to check that the thickest part of meat, not touching the bone, is 140°.
• Remove ham to cutting board and let stand 15 minutes before carving.
• Add drippings from the roasting pan to the saucepan.
• Bring to a boil over medium heat, whisking often.
• Boil gently 2-3 minutes until thickened. Pour into a gravy boat and serve with ham.
• ***Holiday hams are either this or the Coca-Cola® Ham, which I have also posted and turns out excellent as well***