Baked Ham With Orange-Honey Glaze - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1 (6 ounce) can frozen orange juice concentrate, thawed
1 3/4 cups water
1/2 cup honey
3 tablespoons cornstarch
1 teaspoon dry mustard
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
cinnamon
1 (7 -9 lb) smoked fully cooked whole boneless ham
1 whole clove
2 oranges, peeled and sectioned

Preparation

In a saucepan, combine the first 3 ingredients.
Remove 1/4 cup of mixture and combine with cornstarch, stirring until mixture is smooth.
Add the cornstarch mixture to the orange juice mixture in the saucepan; stir until smooth.
Add in the dry mustard and next 3 ingredients; stir to combine.
Cook over medium heat, stirring continually, until the mixture comes to a boil; cook for 1 minute.
Remove the cinnamon stick and take the pan off the stove burner and set aside.
Score the fat on the ham in a diamond pattern; stud with whole cloves.
Place ham, fat side up, on a rack in a shallow roasting pan.
Insert meat thermometer; make sure it does not touch fat.
Bake, uncovered, in a 325 degree oven for 2 hours or until meat thermometer reads 140-\u00b0.
After the first hour of baking, baste the ham every 15 minutes with orange-honey sauce.
Heat the remaining sauce; add orange sections; serve with ham.