Baked Christmas Ham

• 8 to 10 8

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Ingredients

1 x large half leg of Woolworths ham, hock end
1 1/2 cup of brown sugar
1 1/2 cup of bourbon
3/4 cup honey
1 cup orange marmalade
2x Orange zest and juice
1x lemon zest and juice
1/2 cup Dijon mustard
Cloves for decoration
1x Orange sliced for decoration
1x Christmas ribbon for decoration

Method

Pre-heat fan forced oven to 185°C
In a large pot add brown sugar, bourbon, honey, marmalade, zest, juice and Dijon mustard and dissolve while bringing to the boil, carefully. Reduce the heat to a mild simmer for 15 minutes. Set aside.
Remove skin from ham but leaving some on the hock.
Score just through the fat about 5 mm deep on the diagonal the length of the ham, each cut about 1.5 cm apart. Then repeat on the opposite diagonal this should leave you with a diamond shape cut all over the ham. Place a clove in the centre of the diamonds.
Place ham in a deep baking dish, cover the ham with a generous amount of the pre made sauce then bake for 20 minutes, remove from the oven and add the orange slices. Baste with the sauce again rotate the ham and bake for another 20 minutes, baste and rotate the ham two more times cooking for 20 minutes intervals.
Remove from the oven its ready to serve. Keep the rest of the sauce to serve with the ham.
Serving with roasted potatoes, cocktail onions and cherry tomatoes with rosemary.
This can be served hot straight away or do it a day or two ahead of time and serve cold on Christmas Day so it's a little less stressful and the house is not hot.

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