Best Holiday Ham Glaze Recipes

CHERRY PINEAPPLE HOLIDAY HAM GLAZE

Steps:

• Heat pineapple juice, cherry juice, and ham drippings in saucepan over medium/high heat.
• Stir in Brown Sugar until dissolved completely.
• Stir occasionally until bubbling.
• Add pineapple slices and cherries, continuing to stir over medium/high heat.
• Glaze is ready when thickened to the consistency of syrup.
• Pour hot glaze over ham and add pineapple slices and cherries as garnish.

SMOKED HAM WITH SWEET HOLIDAY GLAZE

Steps:

• Season the ham with dry rub. Place plastic wrap over ham and put in refrigerator. Allow the seasoning to penetrate the ham overnight to give it a fuller flavor.
• Using indirect heat, preheat your grill to 250 degrees F. with hickory chips and charcoal.
• Place ham in an aluminum roasting pan and place on grill grates. Let smoke for 3 hours, making sure the temperature remains at 250 degrees F; adding more hickory chips and charcoal, as necessary. Remove to a platter.
• For the glaze:
• Place all ingredients into a saucepan over medium heat. Allow to simmer, cooking for 10 to 15 minutes, until the glaze is syrupy.
• Pour the warm glaze over the warm ham and serve immediately.
• Mix ingredients together and store in an airtight container for up to 6 months.

MOLASSES GLAZE FOR HOLIDAY HAM

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325°F.
• Remove rind from ham and score the fat with a sharp kife, creating diamond shapes all over the surface.
• Stud ham with cloves (and pineapple & cherries, if desired- attach with either toothpicks or cloves).
• Place ham in roasting pan so that the wide flat cut side is down.
• Bake 2 1/2-3 hours for a whole ham, 1 3/4-2 hours for a half ham (or use the heating instructions provided on your ham wrapper, changing the cook temp if necessary as well).
• Mix dry mustard powder with the molasses and brush all over ham 30 minutes before the ham is done, returning ham to oven to contiune cooking at 325°F.
• TIP: Do not baste ham with pan drippings as this will make the glaze look dull.
• Once ham is cooked, let rest 10 minutes before carving.
• Do not eat the cloves- they provide flavoring as they bake, but should be discarded after cooking.

CITRUS HONEY MUSTARD GLAZE FOR HOLIDAY HAM

Steps:

• 1. Mix all ingredients in a sauce pan and cook over medium low heat for about five minutes. Let cool. Brush on ham every 15 minutes for the last hour of cooking.

HOLIDAY HONEY HAM GLAZE

Steps:

• Preheat an oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).
• Place butter in a microwave-safe bowl, and microwave on low power until the butter is very soft and slightly melted. Pour in the corn syrup, honey, and molasses, and mix to a smooth, light brown mixture.
• Score the ham in a diamond pattern about 1/4 inch deep with a sharp knife. With a pastry brush, coat the ham generously with the glaze. Place the ham into a roasting pan, and cover with aluminum foil, taking care not to touch the ham with the foil.
• Bake the ham for 1 hour and 10 minutes (10 minutes per pound), removing the foil tent every 20 minutes to recoat the ham with glaze.
• Remove the foil tent, and turn on the oven's broiler. Broil the ham until the glaze is slightly darkened, about 10 minutes. Remove ham from oven, let stand about 10 minutes, then carve and serve.

HOLIDAY HAM GLAZE

Steps:

• Stir brown sugar, lemon-lime soda, orange liqueur, cloves, allspice, salt, and black pepper together in a saucepan; bring to a simmer and cook until glaze is reduced by 1/4, about 10 minutes.
• Strain through a fine-mesh sieve into another saucepan. Bring mixture to a simmer again and cook until glaze is about the consistency of maple syrup, about 10 minutes more.

HOLIDAY HAM GLAZE

Steps:

• Mix all ingredients (just prior to use) in a non-reactive saucepan and bring to a boil.
• Stir constantly while heating.
• Reduce heat, stirring and allow to simmer for 5 to 10 minutes.
• Apply to ham while warm.

ELEGANT HOLIDAY HAM GLAZE

Steps:

• In a saucepan, combine orange and lemon juices and peel, wine or cranberry juice, corn syrup and mustard. Simmer for 30 minutes. Add the cranberry sauce and ham drippings if desired; heat through. If a thicker glaze is desired, bring just to a boil. , Combine cornstarch and water; add to glaze. Cook and stir until slightly thickened. Serve warm over sliced ham.

HOLIDAY HAM W/LADY BLIGH'S SPICY RUM GLAZE

Steps:

• 1. Pour 2 cups of cider & 2 cups of water into the pot. Place rack down into the pot with ham placed on top. Set OVEN TO 375 degrees for 1 1/2 hour. Cover and cook.
• 2. Make your glaze by mixing in a small bowl your Lady Bligh, brown sugar, orange juice, honey mustard, cayenne and ginger together.
• 3. I mixed the glaze up and covered the ham with it at about 45 minutes after cooking. Then I kept basting till the ham was ready. All the liquid ends up mostly disappearing and this glaze thickens up. I placed the ham on my serving tray and glazed it one more time before cutting.
• 4. Wait at least 10 minutes before carving ham and serving it up.

ELEGANT HOLIDAY HAM GLAZE RECIPE

Steps:

• In a saucepan, combine orange and lemon juices and peel, wine or possibly cranberry juice, corn syrup and mustard. Simmer for 30 min. Add in the cranberry sauce and ham drippings, if you like; heat through. If a thicker glaze is desired, bring just to a boil. Combine cornstarch and water; add in to glaze.
• Cook and stir till slightly thickened. Serve hot over sliced ham.
• Yield;3 1/2 c..

COKE GLAZE FOR HOLIDAY HAM

Steps:

• In Medium or large saucepan Pour juice of pineapple.
• Add Brown sugar to taste, 1 to 2 cups--more or less.
• Add 1 can coke.
• Heat to boil.
• Mix approximately 1 to 2 Tablespoons cornstarch with a small amount of water till smooth.
• Add to mixture.
• Heat till it thickens slightly.
• Prepare Ham: Use a 5lb. ham, boneless or a ham with bone whichever preferred.
• Place in a baking dish or roaster.
• Cut deep slits into ham.
• Place pineapple slices and Maraschino cherries on ham, using toothpicks to hold in place.
• When glaze has thickened, Using baster, baste ham throughly.
• Cook ham according to directions usually listed on ham packaging.
• Baste ham with remaining glaze about every 20 to 30 min. until done.

HOLIDAY HAM GLAZE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
• Make criss-cross pattern in ham by cutting diagonal marks.
• Place on a baking sheet and bake uncovered for about 2 hours.
• Combine cola and worcestershire sauce in medium sauce pan; bring to a boil.
• Reduce heat to low and simmer for 1 hour.
• Add sugar and mustard and stir until it dissolves.
• During last hour of baking, brush mixture over ham every 15 minutes.
• Serve wam with remaining sauce.