Ingredients
- 1 and 1/2 cups seedless raspberry preserves
- 2 tablespoons white vinegar
- 1 to 3 canned chipotle peppers in adobo sauce, chopped small
- 3 cloves garlic, smashed and minced
- 5 - 6 pound cooked ham (rump half or shank portion)
- 24 whole cloves, for studding ham (optional)
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F.
- In a small saucepan combine raspberry preserves, vinegar, chipotle peppers sugar
- and garlic. (If you are mot sure about it being spicy, start with one chipotle and taste it. Add more if you like.)
- Cook and stir over medium high heat just until boiling. Reduce heat to medium and bring to a simmer. Cook, uncovered, about 10 minutes more. It will start to thicken up. (You will have about 1 and 1/2 cups glaze.) Set aside.
- Set a rack inside of Roasting pan . If you don't have a roasting pan, set a large oven-safe cooling rack over a Baking sheet with raised edges. You want to keep the ham lifted from the liquids that will pool in the pan.
- Cut open the packaging on your ham and throw away the glaze packet than probably came with it. We have loftier plans for this ham.
- Set your ham flat side down on the rack. Which we call face down
- Use a sharp serrated knife to score the ham by making diagonal cuts in a diamond pattern. See photos. Make the cuts about a half inch deep.
- If you want, stud your ham with cloves. Push one clove into the crosses of the diamond cuts you made. I love the earthy undertones cloves add! But it's totally up to you and it will still be a great ham if you skip the cloves. I've done it both ways.
- Brush the ham generously with the glaze you made. Don't use all of it, we need to brush again later too.
- If you have an thermometer that is safe for the oven insert it into the center of the ham. The thermometer should not touch the bone. (Or use an instant-read one later.)
- Bake in a 325 degree oven for 1 and 1/2 to 2 and 1/4 hours or until thermometer registers 135 degrees F. (About 20-25 minutes per pound). Remember, the ham is pre-cooked, so you are just getting it nice and warm for serving, and crisping up the outside.
- About 20 minutes before your ham is going to be done, remove it from the oven and brush with more glaze. Return to the oven.
- When the ham reaches 135 degrees, remove from the oven and cover with foil until ready to serve. Serve with remaining glaze.
- Use your leftover bone to make soup 😃
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