Ginger Glazed Ham

Sara 76's Note:

This is from the 2003 Chrisco calenser. It looks good, so I'm putting here to keep it safe til next Christmas!

• Total Time: 1 hrs 20 mins
• Prep Time: 20 mins
• Cook Time: 1 hrs

Ingredients:

Servings: 12

• 3 kg ham

Glaze

• 800 g apricots in syrup
• 75 g brown sugar
• 7 ½ ml ground ginger
• 10 ml apricot jam , smooth

Spiced Apricots

• 4 whole cloves
• reserved apricot syrup , from glaze
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 25 ml ground mixed spice
• 10 ml white wine vinegar
• reserved apricot
• cherry

Directions:

1. Score ham, insert cloves in squares and bake at 170C for 45 minutes basting with the glaze until crisp and golden brown.
2. GLAZE:.
3. Drain syrup from apricots, measure out 125ml and reserve remainder.
4. Place apricot syrup, sugar, ginger and jam in a small pan and melt over a low heat, stirring.
5. Make reserved apricot syrup up to 250ml, with water if necessary.
6. Heat syrup, spices and vinegar in a large shallow saucepan.
7. Add apricots, hollows down and gently simmer for 5 minutes.
8. Remove from heat and cool apricots in syrup.
9. Place a cherry in each half and arrange around ham.

Reviews

[Peter J]

Yum! I decided to have an experiment with this using a tiny 600g ham because apart from Christmas the larger ones are way more than the two of us would get through.It came out great cooked all as directed apart from I used around a third of everything and forgot to buy cherries so ommitted those. Apart from the glaze I loved the spice blend with the apricots that complemented the ham well. I saved some of the sryup leftover from the apricots and lightly spooned over the ham which is a worthwhile step to make sure the wonderful flavours don't go to waste.