Need help cooking a smoked ham

[Tyme2fish]

Mrs.Tyme and I decided we want a ham for Christmas. We bought a Smithfield Bone-In Smoked ham weighing 18.82lbs. The ham is not spiral cut and is a "whole" ham.

I'm thinking about the brown sugar-mustard recipe with maybe a can of Coca-Cola poured into the pan. We are still questioning on whether or not to stick cloves in it but are leaning on not doing the cloves. I don't really care for pineapple slices.

I'm diabetic and want to keep the sugar quantity down, but that's not really all that important.

Does anybody have any suggestions or tips?

Thanks

 

[aspeck]

Re: Need help cooking a smoked ham

Take it over to your "bad" neighbor and ask them to cook it for you!

 

[Tyme2fish]

Re: Need help cooking a smoked ham

Take it over to your "bad" neighbor and ask them to cook it for you!

LOL. He'd probably keep the entire thing except maybe let us have the bone!! LOL

 

[aspeck]

Re: Need help cooking a smoked ham

Bones make good soup!

 

[Tyme2fish]

Re: Need help cooking a smoked ham

..and add great flavor for pinto beans.

 

[Limited-Time]

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I did this glaze a couple of weeks ago. I cut the sugar from 1/2 to 1/3 cup along with cutting the PG juice down by 1/4 cup and adding Honey Bourbon in its place. The only thing I wound change is I would render it down to a cup or so before I added the mustard. Also I opted for the pomegranate seed.

 

[lncoop]

Re: Need help cooking a smoked ham

..and add great flavor for pinto beans.

Now you're talkin'. Might have to do another "Hey Tyme, what's for supper?" soon.:joyous: Since you bought a smoked ham my suggestion would be to just heat and serve. It already has plenty of flavor. However, if you wanted to fancy it up a little the brown sugar and mustard treatment wouldn't be bad. You could decrease the sugar content exponentially by replacing the coke with water and probably wouldn't notice the difference.

 

[Tim Frank]

Re: Need help cooking a smoked ham

Make sure that the Smithfield ham is not so salty that it needs some soaking.

Put it on a rack in a roasting pan....quarter a vidalia onion...cut two or three blood oranges in 1/2 and stud the skin with a few whole cloves.. arrange the onion and orange chunks around the ham.
pour a bottle of California merlot into the roasting pan....bake @ 275 for 15-20 min per lb.
Baste with a turkey baster every 20 minutes.

Serve with mustard sauce....equal parts Dijon and sour cream....with some lemon zest.
That's all I've got....

Actually, I feel pretty stupid suggesting ways to cook a Smithfield ham to a Virginian. :facepalm:

 

[Tyme2fish]

Re: Need help cooking a smoked ham

I did this glaze a couple of weeks ago. I cut the sugar from 1/2 to 1/3 cup along with cutting the PG juice down by 1/4 cup and adding Honey Bourbon in its place. The only thing I wound change is I would render it down to a cup or so before I added the mustard. Also I opted for the pomegranate seed.

A little too exotic for my limited skills but thanks for the suggestion.

 

[Tyme2fish]

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Actually, I feel pretty stupid suggesting ways to cook a Smithfield ham to a Virginian. :facepalm:

That's funny right there. I don't care who you are.

 

[Tyme2fish]

Re: Need help cooking a smoked ham

It's a smoked ham but does need to be fully cooked.

 

[aspeck]

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Yes, but, if my recollection is correct, Smithfield makes a VERY salty smoked ham and a not so salty smoked ham. The last one I got was the VERY salty smoked ham. Not sure how to tell the difference, but as Tim says, make sure you check, because if a VERY salty one you will probably want to soak it to remove the salt first. I was drinking water a gallon at a time for about a week after eating that sucker! Way to salty for me.

 

[colbyt]

Re: Need help cooking a smoked ham

I don't have a lot of experience with the smoked ones. I would be inclined to use a cooking bag to help keep the moisture in the ham, glaze out of the bag for 30 minutes or so at the end. Brown sugar, maybe honey, pineapple juice and about 25 whole cloves stuck in the skin for one that big would be the way I would go. Remove cloves before glazing.

Now if you want to cook a salt cured country ham, I can help you with that. You do use real coke, brown sugar and cloves for that but you boil the ham in a lard can (stock pot).

 

[Tyme2fish]

Re: Need help cooking a smoked ham

To clarify, this is a Smithfield "smoked" ham not the "salt cured" ham. My dear old granny loved Virginia hams that were salt cured. One would be hanging in the kitchen and she'd just slice off a thin piece, pop it in the skillet and serve with eggs and such for breakfast. Salty?? You're darn tooting it was salty. No salt was needed for the eggs, just fork up some egg and a bite of that ham and you were good to go. But as aspeck stated, you better have some water or milk on standby.:lol:

You could also use that ham to resole a shoe if need be!!:shocked:

 

[nwcove]

Re: Need help cooking a smoked ham

get yourself one of those marinade injectors, make up a couple/few cups of honey mustard mix and thin it with water if needed, then start injecting!!

 

[bajaunderground]

Re: Need help cooking a smoked ham

From their website! I love me some smoked ham!

Ready to Cook Bone-in Smoked Portion or Whole Ham Cooking Instructions:

Place ham in pan with 1 cup of water, cover pan tightly with aluminum foil or lid, and cook at 350 degrees F until the internal temperature of the ham reaches 148 degrees F; about 15-19 min/lb for shank portions and about 17-20 min/lb for butt portions. Please note cooking times vary by oven. Let ham stand 10 minutes before carving.
Note: Overcooking tends to dry out the ham.
Ready to Cook Smoked Picnic Shoulder Cooking Instructions:

Place picnic in pan with 1 cup of water, cover pan tightly with aluminum foil or lid, and cook at 350 degrees F for 25 minutes per pound to an internal temperature of 148 degrees F. Let ham stand 10 minutes before carving.
Note: Overcooking tends to dry out the picnic ham.
Glazing Instructions: (for Smithfield Smoked Hams sold with glaze pack included)

Remove ham from oven and apply liquid glaze evenly over ham surface. Allow to sit while glaze melts into the ham, approximately 5 minutes. Serve and enjoy!
Half Ham Carving Instructions: (does not apply to Smithfield Boneless Hams)

Cut around center bone with knife to free as many slices from the bone as desired. Cut along the natural seams of the ham slices to remove sections of those slices you've already freed from the center bone.
Whole Ham Carving Instructions: (does not apply to Smithfield Boneless Hams)

Place the whole ham (flat side down) on a cutting board with the shank (narrow end) to your right. Cut horizontally along center bone from right to left as shown. This will free slices from the bone.

A glaze recipe:

Ingredients


1 c. apple cider
4 t. cornstarch
2 t. spicy mustard
1/8 t. ground cloves

Steps
Stir 2 T. apple cider and cornstarch together in a small bowl. In small saucepan bring cornstarch mixture, remaining apple cider, mustard and cloves to a boil stirring until thickened. Pour glaze over ham in oven and baste ham occasionally with this mixture until ham is heated through (about 45 minutes to an hour.)

 

[Tyme2fish]

Re: Need help cooking a smoked ham

bajaunderground: I've seen that recipe and it's along the line of what I'm planning. Thanks.

Our ham does not come with a glaze packet but I think the mustard/brown sugar topping is about the same thing. If this ham tastes half as good as what my taste buds are anticipating, I'll be happy.

We found a can of cloves that we have no idea of age. The contents look like cloves,smell like cloves, and taste like cloves. I guess I've changed my mind on the cloves and will stick some in the ham just out of respect for traditional cooking methods.but I'll cut down on the quantity of cloves that my dear Mother used to use.

 

[Fishing Dude too]

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Smithfield is a water added ham, so cook low and slow forget the glaze, I buy my hams at a local market and they are hard smoked so everything taste good when they are cooked with it but only ever just warm it up.

 

[oldandintheway]

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diabetic ? skip the sugar.

A smoked ham is already cooked, but to make it more tender.
Remove the outer layer with a sharp knife, rub the ham with a good deli mustard, sprinkle lightly with cloves, place it in a covered roasting pan with 1/2 inch of water and cook at 285 degrees, 15 minutes per pound.

 

[Scott Danforth]

Re: Need help cooking a smoked ham

if it is a smoked ham, it is already cooked.

to make it fall apart, put it in a roasting pan and pour a beer in it, then cover with alumium foil. bring to 350 for an hour.

the steam from the beer will break down the remaining sinue and fat.