Baked Ham Recipe

Favorite Restaurant Recipe
Apricot Glazed Baked Ham

Baked ham, especially this Baked Ham Recipe, is a favorite restaurant recipe on the weekends and for holidays. The restaurant guests have asked for the ham recipe many times and until now it has always been a favorite restaurant recipe.

The recipe is not difficult but the glaze of apricot nectar and preserves with orange marmalade really is a popular flavor enhancement.

You can use a pit ham for this recipe if you wish. It is a smoked, boneless ham that is completely skinned and trimmed of excess fat. It is a great time-saver, but is still a flavorful, tender, juicy ham.

Apricot Glazed Baked Ham Recipe

Preparation time: 1 1/2 hours. Serves 15.

Ingredients:

One 5 pound old fashioned smoked, boneless ham
1 cup apricot nectar
1 cup apricot preserves
1/2 cup orange marmalade
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg

Instructions:

Pre-heat the oven to 325 degrees F
Place the ham and apricot nectar in your roasting pan
In a small mixing bowl, combine the preserves, marmalade, cinnamon and nutmeg
Spread the mixture over the surface of the ham and loosely cover the ham with foil
Bake for 1 1/4 hours basting your ham with pan juices every 20 minutes
Using a meat thermometer, check the internal temperature of the ham and remove it from the oven when the internal temperature reaches 140 degrees F
Slice the ham and place slices on a serving platter and spoon the pan juice over the slices ham