Christmas Ham - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 (15 lb.) whole pork leg (fresh ham)
1 Tbsp. cracked black pepper
salt
1/3 c. chopped parsley

Preparation

About 6 1/2 hours before serving or early in day:
Remove skin and trim excess fat from pork leg, leaving only a thin fat covering. Place pork, fat side up, on rack in large roasting pan. With hands, rub cracked pepper and 2 teaspoons salt over pork. Cover roast loosely with a tent of foil. Insert meat thermometer into center of thickest part of pork, being careful that pointed end of thermometer does not touch bone. Roast pork in 325\u00b0 oven about 6 hours or until meat thermometer reaches 160\u00b0 to 170\u00b0 (about 23 to 25 minutes per pound). Pork near bone will be pink. After pork has roasted 4 hours, remove foil. After pork has roasted 5 hours, sprinkle roast with chopped parsley. When pork is done, place on platter; let stand 15 minutes for easier carving.