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How To Bake A Ham

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March 29, By Kristia 10 Comments

 

Two words…low and slow, when it comes to baking a delicious ham.

A whole boneless smoked ham is more expensive, but there is no waste with fat or gristle and you’re not paying for a bone that you don’t need. This ham is already fully cooked, so essentially you are just heating it up, but that is where the low and slow and the glaze becomes a factor.

How to Bake a Ham

1. Remove the ham from the packaging and discard the packaging. Make a few score marks on the top of the ham. I forgot to take a picture of the score marks before the next step, but you will be able to see the marks in later pictures after the ham was baked.

2. Wrap the entire ham tightly in foil two times. Because of the width of my foil, I wrapped once around the width of the ham and once around the length of the ham so that I covered the entire ham.

3. Place wrapped ham in a rimmed baking sheet or pan.

4. Place in a 300 degree oven and bake for 5 hours.

5. Right before the 5 hours are up, prepare the glaze. Mix together the following ingredients into a thick paste. I varied the last three ingredients, because you don’t want the glaze to be too thin where it just runs off the ham. Start with the 2 tsp and add to your taste if needed.

  • 1 Cup brown sugar
  • 2-3 tsp mustard
  • 2-3 tsp apple cider vinegar
  • 2-3 tsp pineapple juice

6. After 5 hours, remove ham from oven and CAREFULLY unwrap the foil with oven mitts. Pour or slather with a spoon the thick glaze over the very hot ham.

(Take note to the three score marks. This is before I added the glaze. I forgot to take a picture of the ham with the pre-baked glaze)

7. Carefully wrap ham back up tightly with the foil, you might need oven mitts. Bake for one more hour.

That is a total of six hours for my smoked fully cooked 6.7 lb ham, about 53 minutes a pound. Adjust your total time depending on the size of your pre-cooked ham. It might seem like a lot of time, but the ham will come out very tender and flavorful and should not be dried out.

8. Remove from oven and loosen the foil slightly and let the ham sit for 30-60 minutes before cutting into. That will be tough, because it will smell amazing.

9. I used an electric knife, but the ham will be like butter, very easy to cut. The ridges in the ham help guide how thick to cut the slices. There are two ways to cut the ham. (1) I cut ham in half width-wise, then cut one of the halves lengthwise, then I cut across the two quarters for smaller pieces.

Or (2) just cut across width wise for larger slices.

No matter how you cut it…Enjoy!

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Will you be preparing ham for the holiday? What is your favorite glaze? What type of ham do you buy? Let us know in the comments.

Filed Under: Cooking 'How-To' Series, Recipes - Main Dish

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Comments

  1. Money Beagle says

    March 29, at 11:12 am

    Wow, good information! We’re having some people over Saturday and serving ham but we got the easiest way to make it, we’re having someone bring the ham!

    Reply
  2. Nancy says

    March 29, at 4:20 pm

    We received a ham as a Christmas gift from our neighbor man. It was so good. I still have the ham bone in my freezer. Better get that used.

    Reply
  3. Random Thoughts of a Jersey Mom says

    March 29, at 2:02 pm

    I’ve baked ham before but didn’t know I need to wrap foil around it. Thanks for the info.

    Reply
  4. Pinky says

    March 30, at 1:02 am

    HMMM, I have been baking hams for 42 years now and never have wrapped it in foil! I always use a glaze and baste it many times while it is cooking. Have a very Happy Easter!!! XO, Pinky

    Reply
  5. Brenda says

    March 30, at 6:27 pm

    Yummmm, this makes me want ham!

    Reply
  6. bj says

    April 2, at 2:09 am

    This is very much like the way I do our ham…I score the top in diamond shapes, put a whole clove in ea. diamond…cook as you do, but basting several times during cooking..an hour before it is done, I put pineapple slices on the top….
    Gosh, I’ve made my silly self hungry…and your ham looks so so delicious.

    Reply
  7. Family Balance Sheet says

    April 2, at 12:29 pm

    Everyone – Thanks for all of the comments. Just looking at my photos again, makes me hungry to bake another one.

    BJ – I might need to add pineapple slices next time – good idea.

    Kristia

    Reply
  8. Joanne says

    April 19, at 5:14 am

    Could this be done in roaster, with the same cook time?

    Reply
    • Kristia says

      April 19, at 7:06 am

      Hi Joanne, I don’t own a roaster, so I’m not sure.

      Reply

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