Bourbon-glazed Ham

Total Time: 4 hrs 35 mins Preparation Time: 45 mins Cook Time: 3 hrs 50 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 14
• 1 (20 lb) fully cooked bone-in whole ham
• 2 1/2 cups firmly packed dark brown sugar
• 1/3 cup bourbon
• 15 -20 whole cloves

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 325 degrees.
• 2 line a shallow roasting pan with foil and set a roasting rack in the pan.
• 3 cut away and discard any skin from the ham and trim the fat to ½ inch.
• 4 place the ham, fat side up, on the rack in the roasting pan.
• 5 roast until the ham is fully warmed through and an instant-read thermometer inserted into the thickest part of the ham (but not touching bone) registers 140 degrees, 3 to 3 ½ hours.
• 6 remove the ham from the oven.
• 7 increase oven temperature to 425 degrees.
• 8 in a bowl, combine the brown sugar and bourbon and mix to make a paste.
• 9 score the fat on the upper half of the ham in a diamond pattern, cutting about ¼-inch deep.
• 10 rub the paste over the surface, then place the cloves at random intersections of the diamonds.
• 11 return the ham to the oven and bake, basting several times with the pan juices, until the surface is shiny and beginning to brown, 15-20 minutes.
• 12 transfer the ham to a cutting board and tent loosely with foil.
• 13 let stand for 20-30 minutes.
• 14 remove the cloves; carve half of the ham and arrange on a warmed platter.
• 15 carve the remaining ham as needed.