Pappa Spoon inspired Sweet Orange Honey Baked Ham

I tried this ham a week ago when my dad made it and I literally couldn't stop picking, it's absolutely delicious.

The only problem was that I didn't have all the right ingredients so had to improvise a bit with the cloves and spices.

Crucials

• One smoked gammon joint (I used a Tesco value joint about £3.50)
• One carton of orange juice
• One onion
• Cloves and Spices (which I didn't have but I did have a sachet/tea bag of mulled wine spices, so used two of them)
• 4 bay leaves
• Three big spoonfulls of Honey
• One spoonfull of wholegrain mustard
• Half a lemon
• Glug of orange juice
• Crushed chillis
• One spoonfull of soft brown sugar

Cooking the ham

• Put the ham in a large saucepan, cover with cold water and bring to the boil
• Once it starts boiling, turn it off, drain the water and place back into the saucepan
• Pour over the carton of orange juice so it half covers the ham 
• Pour cold water over the top so it covers all of the ham
• Chop the onion in half and add it to the saucepan
• Add the bay leaves and one sachet of the cloves and spices

• Bring to the boil then turn it down and simmer for approx 3 hours
• Remove from the pan and cut off most of the fat and skin from the top, however make sure you leave a thin layer 
• Criss cross the top of the ham with a knife cutting through slightly to the meat
• Place into a roasting tray

Making the Glaze

• Mix the honey, lemon, glug of orange, chillis, brown sugar, cloves and spices and mustard together 
• Spoon over the glaze covering all of the ham and making sure it seeps in through the criss cross

Roasting the Ham

• Preheat the oven to 200 degrees
• Place the glazed ham joint into the oven for approx 25-35 mins until the ham is roasted

• Make sure you baste the ham every 10 mins with the glaze and juices from the roasting tray
• If the juices and glaze start to burn a bit in the tray then transfer the ham to a clean roasting tray for the last 10 mins

So sweet and soooo delicious and perfect for Christmas.