Awesome Baked Ham

OMG!!! Until I tried this recipe, I wasn't wild about baked ham. Besides pizza, it would probably be one of the last things I'd really ever have a craving for. However, hams were on sale, and I remember my mom used to bake a ham, then use the remaining bone to put in a pot of red beans, which being from Louisiana, red beans and rice is a traditional weekly meal, and one of my favorites. I had a 9 lb. half ham, so I adjusted the recipe accordingly. The only addition I made was to put some ground cloves into the brown sugar/mustard paste, then right before it was done, I opened the foil, decorated it with pineapple and cherries, and returned it to the oven, uncovered, and under the broiler for about 5 minutes more, to try to caramelize it a little. Boopster, I will NEVER bake a ham any other way from now on! Because of your recipe, I love baked ham!! It was so moist and juicy, and just deeeeeeeeeelicious! Thank you very much for sharing! :)

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Rather than the dried out smoked to death ham we usually have I decided to make this recipe. It was wonderful. The coating was not a paste....more like a sauce. I was afraid it would not be on the ham long enough to flavor it. The cooking time seemed a little long for the small, bone in ham I had so I cooked 3 hours and let it rest 1 hour. Super ham, super sauce, super sandwiches from left overs. Very moist and good, thanks.

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Wonderful! And so easy to make. I never thought of wrapping ham in foil. Clean-up was a breeze!

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Used this recipe to make a 6 lb boneless ham. Baked for 2 hours and rested for 1 hour - it came out fantastic, not salty at all and just the right amount of sweet. Thanks for sharing the recipe, I just love it!

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Another Easter has passed and here is another 5-star rating for this ham recipe! This ham is truly the best I have ever tasted -- very moist and flavorful. (One of our guests even said it was so juicy that it squirted a bit when she cut into it!) I used an 8 lb. Kunzler ham, halved the brown sugar/paste recipe and cooked it all for 2 hours. Then let it set for 20 minutes before carving. Delish!!! My family has been preparing ham for decades, but none ever tasted like this! TIP: It WILL leak no matter how tightly you wrap it because the "paste" expands when heated, so be sure to line your pan with an extra piece of tin foil for easy cleanup.

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This is the way my mother and now I, always fix (half) hams. I don't use as much sugar or mustard for the sauce, and I add just a little pineapple juice to it.
I also stick whole cloves into the ham, then use a few more to "tack" the pineapple all over.
If you don't have whole cloves add a pinch of ground cloves to your sugar mixture...
Soooooo good!

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I'm not much of a cook. I've also never made a ham and I was very nervous as I was entertaining 20 of my soon-to-be inlaws for Christmas. We used a 16.77 lb semi-boneless ham and had plenty of the "glaze" to spread over the whole thing. We baked at 350 for 4 hours 20 minutes. It was juicy and delicious! Everyone commented how moist it was, I attribute that to the foil baking method. Thanks to the foil, clean-up was super easy. I highly recommend the recipe and the method of cooking!!

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I made this for the second time (can't believe I didn't review this last year!) for Christmas dinner and it was so amazing! Last year I used a whole ham and got rave reviews. This year I used a 12 lb half ham and my "foody" nephew told me it the best thing he'd ever eaten! So easy to make and the results make you look like "super chef". I cooked for about 3 hours and let it rest for another hour or so without uncovering. I can tell you now that this will be the only way I'll be making ham from now on! Thank you for posting!

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I'm about 2 months late with this review. I want to add my raves to the other 197 people who posted. It could not have been any easier or any more tasty!! Two people and 1 ham can be eternity but leftovers were a pleasure too. As an added bonus I saved the pan drippings (caught in foil) and added that to my usual Ham and Bean soup recipe. Now I don't want to make the bean soup unless I have these dripping to add. Awesome recipe indeed! '

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This was really a great ham, and I'm one of those who doesn't really care for ham very much! I used a shank-half ham, and soaked it for a couple of hours to get rid of some of the salt before coating with the mustard-sugar glaze. Since my ham was only 9 pounds, I made 1/2 the amount of glaze, and baked for 2 hours. The whole family raved- definitely the way to do ham for the family!

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i just made this for christmas dinner, and it was a hit! i halved the recipe and added a dash or two of ground cloves. i only ended up using about 2/3rds of the glaze, and saved the rest to use as a sauce after i added about a 1/2 tbs of extra mustard (i used a combination of plain yellow and spicy brown) and about a 1/2 tbs of freshly squeezed orange juice. i reheated in the microwave just before serving, and that nearly outshined the ham, itself! mine, personally DID come about a tidge dry, but that was my fault on account of i l lost track of time. i aimed for two hours, but i believe it ended up baking for around two and a half. i will definitely try this again, only next time i'll be sure to use all of the glaze and make extra for serving. thank you so much for such an easy holiday dish!

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I know without making this it is awesome, as I use this coating on my cornbeef. I never thought of using it on ham, Thanks, Boopster for the great idea, will use it next time we have baked ham.

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Don't know if it's the RECIPE, the GREEN EGG on which it was cooked or the BRAND of BONE-IN Ham I used but people LOVE this!

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This is the only way to bake ham. The only thing different I do, I boil the ham for an hour to remove some of the salt. Then I cook as directed. My family loves this ham!

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How can something with so few ingredients taste so darn good? I don't have the answer, but I know this is really delicious ham!

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As Tweeky says, I will probably never make ham any other way again! The ham was moist, tender and tasty. DH raved about it and is already planning our next ham dinner. I used a 9 lb ham, so I reduced the brown sugar to 1/2 lb and mustard to 1/4 cup. I cooked for 12 minutes per pound of ham, as noted in the cooking directions on the package of ham. I let it sit for an hour after cooking. The only thing I added to your recipe is pineapple slices, as shown in the photo added by Melvin'sWifey. Thanks for a truly awesome recipe, Boopster!

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Awesome!!!!

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Update: My kids don't really like mustard so I substitued the mustard with a 20 oz can of crushed pineapple. They went crazy for it. -- 1/9/09: Well, let me add my 5 stars. Very easy and very tasty. I made this for New Year's Eve and everyone loved it. The meat just fell off the bone. I have read so many recipes for hams that were very complicated compared to this one. Thanks for sharing!! I will definitely make this again.

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Thanks for posting this very simple but absolutely delicious ham recipe. The flavor is all out of proportion to the amount of effort to make it. That's my favorite sort of recipe! For those who complain that the ham turns out dry, I can see three possibilities that could cause that, assuming that you're using a decent quality ham, of course. 1. You're not wrapping the ham tightly enough, allowing moisture to escape during the time in the oven. 2. Your oven temperature is way off (it can happen). I check mine once a year to be sure. 3. I think the most likely is that you're trying to cook the ham rather than warm it up. My favorite, a Cook's Spiral Sliced Hickory Smoked Bone-In Honey Ham, recommends a 275 degree oven for 12 to 15 minutes per pound. At the end it's only about 120 deg. F in the center. But the ham is fully cooked before it leaves the factory, all I'm doing is heating it up. If I were to heat it to 150 to 160 Deg. F the ham would be dry and rather chewy. By the way, the ham I mentioned above was the winner in Cook's Illustrated taste test and it's really very good. NOTE: Make sure the label on your ham says that it's fully cooked.

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I'll add another 5-star review along with the hundreds of others. I had a 14 lb bone-in pre-cooked ham that I wanted to come out moist and tasty. I can not tolerate sweet, sweet glazes and this one looked promising. I used about 1 cup of brown sugar, the listed amount of yellow mustard and then I threw in about 2 tsp (approximate, I didn't measure) of horseradish (regular, not hot) and several dashes of worcestershire sauce as I wanted to lean away from super sweet. I baked it as directed but only went 3 hours and let sit for about 20 minutes. It smelled great baking. I put down 2 layers of foil in the bottom of the pan in case it leaked (it didn't). The ham tasted PERFECT and was super MOIST! I will use this recipe to bake ALL my future hams. Like the title says "AWESOME"!

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