# Thanksgiving Ham

A delicious Thanksgiving ham recipe, featuring a unique orange, rosemary, and brown sugar glaze.

- Total time: 100 min
- Cuisine: American
- Category: Dinner
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- Ham
- Allspice
- Cloves
- Orange
- Rosemary
- cup Brown sugar

## Instructions

1. Place the ham in a large pot.
2. Add allspice to the pot with the ham.
3. Add cloves to the pot with the ham.
4. Pour water into the pot until the ham is covered.
5. Boil the ham for 45 minutes to 1 hour with cloves and allspice.
6. Zest an orange using a microplane grater.
7. Cut the zested orange in half.
8. Squeeze the juice from the orange halves through a strainer into a pot.
9. Remove rosemary leaves from their stems.
10. Chop the rosemary finely.
11. Add the orange zest to the pot with orange juice.
12. Add the chopped rosemary to the orange juice and zest.
13. Add brown sugar to the pot.
14. Heat the glaze mixture until it becomes bubbly and syrupy.
15. Score the boiled ham in a crosshatch pattern.
16. Insert whole cloves into each score of the ham.
17. Spoon the glaze over the scored and studded ham.
18. Bake the ham for 20 minutes.
19. After 20 minutes, glaze the ham again with the syrupy mixture.
20. Bake for another 20 minutes.
21. Remove the ham from the oven.
22. Slice the ham.
23. Garnish with a slice of orange and a sprig of rosemary before serving.

## Equipment

- Large pot
- Knife
- Microplane grater
- Cutting board
- Strainer
- Baking dish
- Spoon

## Tips

- You can bake your ham instead of boiling if preferred.
- Traditionally, Jamaican ham is glazed with pineapple juice and garnished with pineapple and cherries.

## Source

- Original video: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrLYyJnp/
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/7c245821-49e7-490d-a1ec-ba76e61d0718
- Extracted: 2025-11-23

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