Receta Baked Ham with Mustard Sauce; how much is too much?
Baking / roasting times for hams (and turkeys) are all over the charts…. And I’m not doing a chart.
For a ham the number of minutes per pound depends on whether it’s boneless or bone-in, fully cooked or not cooked and the weight of the ham. A larger ham takes fewer minutes per pound than a smaller ham.
Of course the oven temperature makes a difference as well. Some like a hot oven, some not so hot.
If you want more opinions and lots of charts do a search.
Generally speaking a fully cooked boneless ham should be baked to an internal temp of 140F (60C), about 20 minutes per lb for a small ham.
A ham that must be cooked should reach an internal temp of 150F (65C), 35 minutes per lb. for small hams and 22 minutes for larger (over 5 lbs) hams. These times assume a 325F (165C) oven.
All that having been said – use a meat thermometer.
Please….. Use a meat thermometer.
The other thing I strongly urge…. Make the Mustard Sauce.
Really.
It’s the best thing about Baked Ham – and I love Baked Ham.
Baked Ham with Mustard Sauce
Total time: 2 hours
Ingredients:
1 small ham, about 4 lbs (2 kg)
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 tsp dry mustard
1 tbs red wine vinegar
Instructions:
Put ham on rack in roasting pan and roast in 325F (165C) oven.
About 30 minutes before it’s done mix the sugar, mustard and vinegar.
Remove the ham from the oven. Remove the skin if there is any, score the fat with a sharp knife (diamond pattern is pretty).
Pat the brown sugar mixture over the top of the ham and return to oven. Finish baking.
Remove ham and allow rest for 15 – 20 minutes before slicing.
Mustard Sauce
Time: 10 minutes
Ingredients:
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup (2oz, 60ml) milk
- 1/4 cup (2oz, 60ml) cider or white vinegar
- 2 tbs dry mustard
- 1 egg
- pinch salt
- 2 tbs butter
Instructions:
Crack the egg into the top of a double boiler and whisk until beaten.
Add sugar, milk and mustard, whisk well.
Cook over simmering water for about 5 minutes, until sugar and mustard are dissolved and mixture is hot, stirring occasionally.
Add vinegar and continue to cook until thick.
Remove from heat, stir in butter and salt.
Refrigerate. Good with almost everything and keeps a long time.
Note: if you don’t have a double boiler, put a metal bowl on a saucepan partially filled with water. The bottom of the bowl should not touch the water.
This is our traditional Christmas dinner.
This year we’re breaking with that tradition.
We’re having some friends join us for Christmas and we decided to go with the more universal tradition and have Roast Turkey.
Today we went off to get said turkey.
I bought the biggest turkey I could find. It’s just over 8 lbs.
I paid $28.00 (22.00 euro) for it.
I had to go to two stores to find it. One store, the big supermarket that was doing a promotion, had lots of turkeys. They were all between 6 and 8 lbs…. And cost between 40.00 and 50.00 dollars (35.00 – 45.00 euro).
Think about it….. 50 dollars for an 8 lb turkey.
And that was the special promotion price.
I did a post once positing that everyone has a ‘thing’ which, totally unrelated to the rest of his or her lifestyle, is deemed not worthy of expense.
I knew a couple, both doctors, who wouldn’t buy tissues. If one had the sniffles, one was handed a role of toilet paper.
The line that people draw can be totally arbitrary: $7.00 for a cup of gourmet coffee is fine but $3.00 for a pound of coffee beans is too much.
I never thought I would pay over $7.00 per pound for a turkey.
Guess my imaginary line is still flexible.
What do you draw the line at?
Last update on December 19, 2014